Pirate Pants

Beginner - Half a day - Complete

Keywords :

Cotton fabrics - Carnival - Fancy dress - Pirate patterns - To draw a pattern - Black and White - Sarouel

These pirate pants are super easy to make! Pair them with the pirate shirt, pirate eye-patch, pirate belt and pirate headscarf for an outfit that will transform your little angel into an adventurer of the high seas.

With a hem low on the leg, this elastic-waist pirate pants pattern can also work as pajama pants or athletic pants.

Supplies

Tools

Sewing supplies

Materials

About 60 x 140 cm (24 x 55 inches) of cotton or jersey cloth with black and white (or black and red) vertical stripes
10 to 12 cm (4 or 5 inches) of flat elastic
47 cm (20 inches) of flat elastic for the waist
Matching thread

Directions

Prepare the pant legs for the pirate pants

Download and print the pattern for pirate pant-legs.

NB: Scale: 1 small square = 5 mm (1/5 inches)

Cut the cloth according to the pattern.

NB : Allow 1 cm (1/2 inch) of margin for sewing.

Legs of the pirate pants

Sew over the lower edges of one pant leg with a whipstitch or a very tight zigzag stitch.

Close the pant leg and sew up the inseam with a whipstitch from the bottom to the crotch.

Do the same for the other pant leg.

Put the pirate pants together

Place one leg inside the other so that the seams line up. Make sure the front and back parts of the crotch coincide.

Pin the legs together where they will join.

Sew up the length of the crotch so that the seam is strong and tight. Sew with a whip stitch.

Waist of the pirate pants

Fold over the top of the pants to form a tube (casing for the drawstring) about 2 cm (1 inch) high.
Pin and sew along the bottom of the fold, leaving an opening about 2 or 3 cm (1 or 1 ½ inches) wide to put in the elastic.

Pass the elastic - about 47 cm (20 inches) counting the seam – around the waist with the help of a safety pin.

Sew the ends of the elastic together solidly.
Finish sewing the waist with some backstitching.

Tips

Pin or baste the fabric with a loose running stitch if it is difficult to sew before you make the garment.
To easily find the back of the pants, sew a mark or draw one with permanent marker..