Cropped Straight Leg Trousers with Slits

Name: Cropped Straight Leg Trousers with Slits
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5099
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5099

Women's cropped straight-leg trousers with a shaped waistband, a zip in the left side seam, short slits at the lower side seams and pressed creases. Lined when the fabric is not opaque. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: lightweight fabrics that hold their shape, with a lining fabric matching in colour and quality.

Tech. Description

Cropped Straight Leg Trousers with Slits

Women's cropped straight-leg trousers with a shaped waistband, a zip in the left side seam, short slits at the lower side seams and pressed creases. Lined when the fabric is not opaque.

When To Wear

In spring and summer with blouses, shirts and flat shoes.
For the office with a jacket in the same fabric.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Straight legs with pressed creases at front and back.

Length: Cropped, below the knee.

Waist: Separate front and back waistband pieces, each cut on the fold and joined at the side seams; the inner waistband is cut from lining fabric and interfaced. The waistband is secured by stitching in the ditch of its seam from the right side.

Closure: Zip in the left side seam, set under the seam edges so the teeth are hidden, running to the top of the waistband.

Back: Darts on the back legs, pressed towards the centre seam.

Legs: Slits at the lower end of the side seams; the hem allowance is turned and stitched together with the slit edges.

Lining: Lining for the legs cut to the lining line, with darts, attached at the waistband and sewn to the zip tapes; hemmed separately.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. A side zip set into the waistband, a hem finished together with the side slits, and a lining joined through the waistband.

Fabric Recommendations

Lightweight fabrics that hold their shape, with a lining fabric matching in colour and quality. If the main fabric is opaque, no lining is needed.

Additional Supplies

Lining fabric (for a sheer or semi-sheer main fabric)
Fusible interfacing (inner waistband)
1 zip

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

Front - 2 pieces
Back - 2 pieces
Front Waistband - 1 piece on fold
Back Waistband - 1 piece on fold

From lining fabric: front, back - up to the lining line, Front Waistband, Back Waistband - unchanged
From fusible interfacing: reinforce the front and back waistbands made from lining fabric with fusible interfacing

Sewing Instructions

Reinforce the front and back waistbands made from lining fabric with fusible interfacing (Heat-adhesive interfacings are pressed onto the wrong side of the piece with a hot iron).
Stitch the darts on the back panels, press the dart depths towards the center seam line.
Sew the side seams, ending the stitching approx. 5 cm above the transverse mark of the lower slit. In the left side seam at the top, also leave an open slit for the zipper closure.
Stitch the inseams.
Place the pant halves one inside the other, right side to right side, and sew the front and back crotch seams with a single stitch.
On the outer waistband pieces made of silk fabric, sew the right side seam.
Attach the outer waistband to the upper edge of the pants, press the seam allowances towards the waistband.
Baste the zipper under the edges of the upper slit in the left side seam up to the upper edge of the waistband so that the teeth are not visible, and stitch at a distance of 0.5 cm.
Turn the hem allowances of the pant halves to the right side and stitch along the edges of the lower side slits up to the transverse notches.
Turn down the allowance along the upper edge of the hem of each pant half and pin.
Sew the remaining open section of the side seam up to the slit mark.
Turn the hem to the wrong side. Press the lower edge of the pants and the edges of the slit. Stitch the hem.
On the cut pieces made of lining fabric, stitch the darts and sew the seams.
Attach the waistband made of lining fabric to the upper edge of the lining. Press the seam allowances open.
Place the waistband made of lining fabric (inner waistband) right side to right side of the pant waistband, without inserting the lining into the pants.
Stitch the upper edges of the outer and inner waistbands.
Turn the waistband right side out, insert the lining into the pants, wrong side to wrong side, fold under and stitch to the zipper tapes.
From the right side of the pants, stitch exactly into the waistband attachment seam, catching the lining.
Finish the hem at the bottom of the lining.
Press the pleats/creases.