These comfortable elastic waist pants are polished enough for the real world! This pattern is a skill-building project for a confident beginner, and will cover pockets, hems, facings, and seams (standard, flat fell, and french!) along with basic fit adjustments. Students should be comfortable setting up their machine and sewing straight lines, and have some experience sewing from a pattern.

For the first class, you’ll need your sewing machine set up, your paper pattern pieces cut out, tape, extra paper, and some scrap fabric for seam practice.

Materials List:

Free Range Slacks pattern by Sew House Seven

Clear tape & extra paper

Paper scissors

Bottom weight fabric in the yardage for your size, not too heavy: Linens, twills, and light to mid-weight denim are good choices

1 1/2” elastic (3/4 - 1 1/4 yards)

Matching thread

A fresh 80/12 or 90/14 machine needle

Erasable fabric marking tool

Bodkin or large safety pin

Basic Sewing Kit: sharp fabric shears, 2 x 18” clear ruler, tape measure, straight pins, seam gauge, seam ripper.

Skills learned: sizing, lengthen/shorten pattern, pinning & cutting, sewing & finishing seams, topstitching, understitching, hems, inserting elastic.