The muslin
I guess I should have known it was coming. Just because I have been successful with my last few attempts at pant drafting it doesn’t mean that those methods will work on a completely different design in a completely different fabric. The front looks okay (apart from the wrinkles, but that just the fabric). The back however, does not.
The good.
I’m very glad I did a muslin.
The bad.
Making a pant muslin out of a light weight cotton/lycra shirting is however a bad idea. There is no shape or hold in this fabric whatsoever and it wrinkles terrible.
The good.
It looks like my design and construction ideas will work. I also like the shaping of the pants and they fit perfectly around the waist and knees.
The bad.
The crotch/butt/back thigh area, it’s horrible, horrible! I hope that someone can give me suggestions on how to improve the fit. One obvious mistake was that I used a crotch draft for a regular straight leg pants, that clearly doesn’t work on these fitted stretch trousers. The crotch is not extended enough for instance. I should have followed Mrs Stylebook’s crotch draft instead, which is also similar to the fitted jeans pattern that I have. Also my poor choice of muslin fabric probably makes it look even worse. I’ll make the adjusted muslin in a more stable fabric.
The good.
The button placket solution will most likely work, there is no gaping involved, which is probably due to the interfacing and the close placement of the buttons.
The bad.
It looks like I won’t be able to topstitch the placket since it distorts the lycra fabric. I hate sewing lycra wovens! I’ll try machine blind stitching instead and hope that will work. It doesn’t look like there is any topstitching on the original pants either, so I assume that it’s done in a similar way.
The good.
I’m a very stubborn person. I will pull this off.
