Sewing FREE amateur pattern and tutorial for IOS 80 boy pants

I figured the really big boys are probably kind of hard for people to find pants for so I thought I'd post up the pattern I made while sewing an outfit for my boy.

I'm no professional, so they aren't terribly polished and I didn't take the time to clean up the pattern as much as I probably should have, but hopefully this will be helpful for some people. I'm also a big scatter brain, so please let me know if I've left out anything... Also feel free to embellish on the pattern or tutorial if you like!

This pattern fits the doll as pictured below, but of course you could make the waistband thinner or the hem longer or shorter, etc. I like a little extra length on pants for dolls since they ride up when the legs bend at all, especially when sitting. I think the pattern should print correctly sized, though it will take at least 2 sheets of paper since 80 boys have such long legs.

Also, the pattern is drawn with 1/2 cm margins, so if you want to use a thicker margin, you'll have to calculate that in when you're cutting, or redraw the pattern.



I patterned the waistband the way I did so that the top tapers because I can't stand for waistbands to gape at the back the way straight waistbands do. But if you don't mind it, you could just make a straight waistband instead of the complicated one that I patterned out.



Step 1:
Sew the outsides of each pant leg together, remembering to fold the hem before stitching over it so that the fold is built in and you don't have to top stitch if you don't want to. You can also stitch the darts (v-shaped cut outs) at the backs of the pants now. Then iron. Ironing as you go when you can is easier:



Step 2:
I didn't take a picture, of this step, but fold the placket in half length-wise and sew the raw edges to the top/front of the pants on the doll's right side. Hopefully showing where the placket is in the next to last image will give you an idea enough about how the placket fits in to make up for a lack of photo here.

Step 3:
Sew the inseams of the pant legs closed. Now is a good time to iron the inseams flat, but you can wait till it's all done if you want. I like to roll up a rag or some other material and insert it into the legs when ironing these seams, like this:



Step 4:
Pants should still be inside out, sew the backs of the pants to each other and start up the front, though you will only do that till up a little past the bottom of the placket. At that point, you can either leave off for a minute to do the top stitching on the edge of the overlap first, or you can do this other part. Doesn't matter which order you do it in. This part is just a little hard to explain. You know how you see a lot of pants with like a long "u" sort of shape top stitched over the fly? Well for the bottom of the "U" the stitches should go through both the overlapping side of the pants AND the placket. The rest of the stitches up either side of the "U" should be the overlap only. Hope that makes sense? And if not, hopefully the pictures will help... They are shown after step 5.

Step 5:
I've color coded the edges of the waistband that need to be sewn together. They are shaped like that because I like to taper the tops of the waistbands for doll pants so that I don't get that gaping effect, particularly at the back with dolls. You can just make a straight band if gaping doesn't bother you.

Note that the doll's right side has the placket, so the front side of the waistband for that side is longer than the left side.

Fold the waistband wrong side out, stitch the ends, then fold the waistband right side out. You should now have a nice clean tapered waistband that you can sew to the top of the pants!

Now sew to the top of the pants.





Step 6:
Sew in snaps or whatever other fastening alternative that you may want to use.

And you're done!

 

XD np! Hope it works well for you if you get around to trying it out.

 

yay! I was beginning to wonder if anyone was going to use it hehe. Took a while before the thread was noticed.