Maternity Pants with Stretch Front Panel

Maternity Pants with Stretch Front Panel

Full-length women's maternity trousers with straight legs, made from dense high-stretch fabric. A rounded knit panel over the belly is set into the front, and the waist is finished with facings; a decorative cord runs through buttonholes or eyelets at the centre front.

When To Wear

• During pregnancy for everyday wear, with tunics, long tops and shirts worn loose over the panel.
• In autumn, winter and spring, depending on the fabric weight.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Straight legs, sitting high at the front over the belly.

Length: Full length.

Front: Knit insert sewn into a curved cut-out on each front leg, the seam pressed towards the insert. The front crotch seam is stitched up to the insert.

Waist: Front facings cut from knit, back facings from main fabric and interfaced. The trousers are eased onto the facing at the knit insert; the facing is stitched to a lower facing, understitched 0.2 cm from the seam and topstitched in place. Buttonholes or eyelets on the front facing carry a decorative cord with cord ends.

Back: Two back pieces; the seat seam is reinforced with a second row of stitching.

Legs: Side seams and inseams pressed towards the back; hem turned up and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Setting a knit panel into a curved seam, easing it onto the facing, a double-stitched seat seam and buttonholes or eyelets.

Fabric Recommendations

Any dense fabric with high stretch for the trousers. Dense knit with added elastane for the front insert and front facings.

Additional Supplies

• Dense knit with elastane (front insert, front facings)
• Fusible interfacing (back facing, buttonhole area of the front facing)
• Decorative cord
• Cord ends
• Eyelets, if used instead of buttonholes