How to Make Wrap-Around Pants
Wrap pants, also called Thai fisherman pants and sarong pants, are simple pants useful for practicing yoga, lounging around the house, wearing as a bathing suit cover-up, and for maternity wear. They're easy to sew and don't require zippers, buttons, snaps or elastic. You can make wrap pants using any type of lightweight fabric, such as cotton, rayon or polyester blends.
Things You'll Need
- Measuring tape
- Lightweight fabric
- Scissors
- Pins
- Needle and thread
- Iron
- Safety pin
- 2 yards of ribbon, 1 inch wide
Instructions
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Use your measuring tape to measure the length from your waist to your ankle. Add 3 inches and trim fabric to this length.
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Cut fabric in half, making each half measure 1 yard wide.
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Put one half on top of the other, lining up the matching lengths. Pin them together.
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Use scissors to cut a U shape in the center of one of the short sides of your fabric. The shape should be about 12 inches long by 8 inches wide. This is the inseam; the bend of the U is the crotch of the pants.
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Stitch the pieces of fabric together, following along the U shape and the straight borders. Remember to leave the top and bottoms of the legs open.
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Fold the raw border at the bottom and side edges of the front side of the pants about 1/2 inch toward the wrong side. Iron press the fold and then do another 1/2-inch fold. Press both folds.
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Stitch the edges to seal what you have folded above. There will be a small hole to put ribbons through in later steps.
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Repeat steps 6 and 7 to the back side of the pants.
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Cut the ribbon in half and attach a safety pin at one end of one of the ribbons. Pull this ribbon through the pants' front casing.
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Pull the other ribbon through the back casing.
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