Denim Pants with Large Cargo Pockets
Women's full-length denim trousers with wide straight legs, large front patch pockets with slanted openings, a flap cargo pocket on each leg set over the side seam, a back yoke and a zip fly.
When To Wear
- For everyday and outdoor wear with T-shirts, sweatshirts and denim or utility jackets.
- In spring and autumn with trainers or ankle boots.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: Straight, wide legs from hip to hem.
Length: Full length.
Waist: Straight interfaced waistband folded in half, with wide belt loops; fastens with a buttonhole and button.
Closure: 20 cm zip fly with an interfaced fly shield and cut-on fly facings.
Pockets: Large front patch pockets running from the waistband to below the hip, with a slanted opening near the side seam topstitched 0.5 cm from the edge. Cargo patch pockets on the thighs placed across the side seams, each with a button-down flap topstitched 0.5 cm from the edge.
Back: Shaped back yoke, seam pressed onto the yoke and topstitched 0.5 cm; the seat seam is double-stitched.
Finishing: Seams overlocked; side seams and inseams pressed towards the back; patch pockets topstitched 0.2 cm from the edge; hem turned up 3 cm and topstitched.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Zip fly with a fly shield, a folded waistband with belt loops, flap patch pockets with buttonholes and a back yoke.
Fabric Recommendations
Denim.
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing (waistband, fly shield, flaps, pocket opening allowances)
- Zip, 20 cm
- 5 buttons
Cutter's Must
From main fabric:
- Front Patch Pocket – 2 pieces
- Belt Loop – 1 piece
- Patch Pocket – 2 pieces
- Patch Pocket Flap – 4 pieces
- Front Half – 2 pieces
- Button Catch (fly shield) – 1 piece
- Back Half – 2 pieces
- Yoke – 2 pieces
- Waistband – 1 piece
- From fusible interfacing: Waistband, Button Catch, Patch Pocket Flap, pocket opening allowance.
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse interfacing to the Waistband, the Button Catch, the Patch Pocket Flaps and the pocket opening allowances.
- Overlock the edges of the Front Patch Pocket: the long side edge, the opening edge and the lower edge. Press the overlocked allowances to the wrong side following the pattern. Topstitch the opening allowance 0.5 cm from the edge.
- Mark the position of the Front Patch Pocket on the Front Half and topstitch the side and lower edges of the pocket 0.2 cm from the edge, leaving the opening free.
- Place the Patch Pocket Flap pieces right sides together in pairs and stitch. Trim the seam allowances at the corners and turn the flaps right side out. Topstitch around the outer edge of the flaps 0.5 cm from the edge and overlock the upper edge of each flap.
- Stitch the Yoke to the Back Half, overlock the seam and press it towards the Yoke. Topstitch 0.5 cm from the seam.
- Stitch and overlock the side seams. Press the side seams towards the Back Half.
- Overlock the outer edge of the Patch Pocket and press the allowances to the wrong side following the pattern. Topstitch the upper allowance of the pocket. Mark the pocket position across the side seam on the Front Half and Back Half and topstitch the pocket 0.2 cm from the edge, leaving the opening free. Place the Patch Pocket Flap at the marked line and stitch it on. Turn the flap down over the pocket and topstitch 0.5 cm from the seam.
- Overlock the centre front and centre back edges of the trouser halves and the lower edges of the legs. Stitch and overlock the inseams. Press the inseams towards the Back Half. Stitch the crotch seam from the zip notch at the front to the top of the centre back seam. Stitch a second line along the seat seam next to the first stitching.
- Press the cut-on fly facings to the wrong side. Stitch the zip close to the folded edge of the left fly allowance. Stitch the free zip tape to the cut-on fly facing of the right half. Fold the Button Catch in half lengthwise, right sides together, stitch across the short lower end and turn it right side out. Stitch the cut-on fly facing to the Button Catch on the left trouser half. Topstitch the right edge of the opening, catching the fly facing.
- Fold the Belt Loop strip lengthwise in half, right sides together, align the edges and stitch 0.5–0.7 cm from the edges. Turn it right side out and press, with the seam either on the fold or rolled 0.1–0.2 cm to the underside.
- Press the Waistband lengthwise in half, wrong sides together, and overlock the lower edge of the inner half. Cut the belt loops to length and stitch them onto the Waistband at the marks.
- Stitch the Waistband to the upper edge of the trousers. Stitch across the ends of the Waistband, trim the seam allowances at the corners and turn right side out. Secure the overlocked lower edge of the inner Waistband by stitching in the ditch of the waistband seam, then press the Waistband.
- Press the hem allowance to the wrong side and topstitch.
- Make a buttonhole on the right end of the Waistband and sew the button on the left end. Mark and make the buttonholes on the Patch Pocket Flaps and sew the buttons on the Patch Pockets following the markings.
