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 Half – 2 pieces
Back Half – 2 pieces
Front Belt (waistband) – 1 piece on fold
Back Belt (waistband) – 1 piece on fold

From lining fabric: Front Half and Back Half – cut to the lining line; Front Belt and Back Belt – unchanged
From fusible interfacing: reinforce the lining-fabric Front Belt and Back Belt with fusible interfacing

Sewing Instructions

Reinforce the lining-fabric Front Belt and Back Belt with fusible interfacing (fusible interfacing is pressed onto the wrong side of the piece with a hot iron).
Stitch the darts on the Back Half pieces and press them towards the centre back seam.
Sew the side seams, ending the stitching about 5 cm above the cross mark of the lower slit. In the left side seam, also leave an opening at the top for the zipper.
Stitch the inside leg seams.
Place one trouser leg inside the other, right sides together, and sew the front and back crotch seams in one continuous seam.
On the outer (main fabric) Front Belt and Back Belt, sew the right side seam.
Stitch the outer waistband to the top edge of the trousers and press the seam allowances towards the waistband.
Baste the zipper under the edges of the upper opening in the left side seam, up to the top edge of the waistband, so that the teeth are hidden, and stitch 0.5 cm from the edges.
Turn the hem allowances of the Front Half and Back Half pieces to the right side and stitch along the edges of the lower side slits up to the cross marks.
Turn down the seam allowance along the top edge of the hem allowance of each piece and pin.
Sew the remaining open part of the side seam down to the slit mark.
Turn the hem to the wrong side. Press the lower edge of the trousers and the slit edges. Sew the hem by hand.
On the lining pieces, stitch the darts and sew the seams.
Stitch the lining-fabric Front Belt and Back Belt to the top edge of the lining. Press the seam allowances open.
Place the lining waistband (inner waistband) on the outer waistband, right sides together, without putting the lining inside the trousers.
Stitch the top edges of the outer and inner waistbands together.
Turn the waistband right side out, put the lining inside the trousers, wrong sides together, turn under the lining edges at the opening and sew them to the zipper tapes.
From the right side of the trousers, stitch exactly in the waistband seam, catching the lining.
Hem the lining.
Press the creases.