Yoga Pants, Learn How To Make Your Own.

Stretch knit fabrics with spandex woven into it keeps a better shape. I highly recommend using knit fabrics with spandex.

Here are some examples of sewing patterns you can use for yoga pants.

Mccalls 4261. kwik sew 3660. Jalie 2445.

The pattern I used to make my exercise pants was the Jalie pattern you see above.

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You can follow the easy directions on the pattern.

However, I will give the "step by step" of how I put the pants together. This is useful if you decide to draft your own pattern. Making your pattern is easy to do. Here is a Thread Banger Youtube video.

After you cut out your pattern. Separate the pieces and place one front with one back and pin the right sides of the fabric together at the inseam

Stitch the inseams together. The photo shows a serger being used, but you can do this with a 3 mm straight stitch and slightly pull the fabric as you sew. Steam press your seams to flatten them.

Now with right sides the fabric together and raw edges even pin the crotch of the two layers together and stitch in the same manner as the in the inseams. Press to flatten the seam.

After sewing the crotch,and with right sides of the fabric together, stitch the sides seams.

For the waistband, fold the waistband in half lengthwise with right sides of the fabric together, pin and stitch the band to make a complete circle.

With right sides together, pin the waistband to the pants. Stitch the raw edges together.

Measure a piece of 1 1/2 inch wide elastic to comfortably go around your waist and add 1" for the seam. Stitch the elastic the same way as you did the waistband. Only instead of sewing the ends on top of each other, overlap the ends so the elastic will be flat.

Fold the elastic in equal parts to find the centre front, back and sides of the elastic. Mark each section with a pen.

Now with the elastic on the wrong side of the waistband pin and tack stitch the elastic only to the waistband at the four marks you made on the elastic. Using a zigzag stitch works well.

Now you can fold the other side of the waistband over the elastic and sew all the raw edges of the pants and waistband together. As you can see above, the finished front and back. Hope you like it. Try it yourself and see what yoga pants you can come up with.
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