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Pajama Pants Tutorial

Everyone loves pajama pants! And they are even more special when they are homemade using favorite fabrics. Use our Pajama Pants Tutorial (with one seam and acuff!) by The Creative Vault and make one for everyone in the family.

Hi y’all! Alicia here from The Creative Vault and I’m happy to be back again! TodayI’m going to show you how to make one seam cuffed pajama pants. I also have agiveaway for you so stick around until the end to find out how you can win!

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Most pants you see will have an inseam and and outer seam that runs down thesides of the pants. One seam pants have just an inner seam which means less work,more comfort. This one seam technique is perfect for comfy pj’s and lounge pants.

You can make these in any size, adult to kids, and once you have your pattern ittakes less than 30 minutes to put it together. Great for gifts for the upcomingholidays. {Yikes! Did I just say it was almost Christmas!?!}



I also wanted to highlight The Ribbon Retreat’s Licensed Fabric selection and howgreat it is for boys. What little man doesn’t imagine himself as Batman orSuperman? The fabric is awesome enough for boys to want to wear and it gives usan excuse to craft for the guys in our life because let’s face it, crafting for them canbe so hard! There is also licensed fabric for girls too so be sure to check it out.

Let’s get started!

~ Pajama Pants Tutorial ~

Supplies:

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- Main Fabric, Batman Blue Logo

- Coordinating Fabric, Batman Black Brick

- 1 inch elastic

- Thread

- Pants Pattern (see below)

Step 1: Create your pattern.

Lay a pair of pants onto craft paper. I buy my paper at the dollar store but you canalso use the back of wrapping paper.

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Trace your pants by adding half an inch to the sides. Add about an inch and a half tothe top and 1-2 inches to the hem. You’ll see that I made the waist and the hem lineas straight as possible.

You can make adjustments according to how your starter pants fit your child. Iwanted my pants to be looser than the jeans I measured from so I added a littleroom.

For the cuff you will mark 1-2 inches above the original hem.



Now you have two pattern pieces – a pant leg and a cuff.

Step 2: Cut out your pieces.

Lay your pant pattern on the fold of your main fabric. Cut 2.

For the cuff, fold your coordinating fabric horizontally and then once over vertically



(see photo below). Lay your pattern piece on top, lining it up where the folds areand cut 2.

You should now have a total of 4 pieces.

Step 3: Lay the pants right side together and stitch the sectionsindicated in the picture.



{Don’t let the different fabric throw you off. I just forgot to take a picture of this stepin the Batman fabric. Sorry.}

Step 4: Keeping right sides together open the pants up and stitch theentire curve of the inseam.

If you don’t want a cuff to your pants you’re basically done. After this step youwould just need to add an elastic casing and hem the bottom. If you’re wanting acuff, read on…



Step 5: Prepare the cuff.

Sew the short sides of the cuff together, right sides together.

Fold the cuff in half with the seam on the inside.



Attach the cuff to the outside of the pant (while they are still inside out) and stitch.When you attach the cuff this way the raw or serged edge will be on the outside ofthe pant. When you roll up the cuff you won’t see it at all. I like it this way, becauseit creates a smoother inside and is more comfortable, but if you’d rather the edge beon the inside of the pant than you would just attach in the same way with the pantsright side out.

Step 6: Create a casing for the elastic.

Fold over the waistband and stitch, leaving about a one inch opening. Pull yourelastic through and stitch it together. Sew the opening closed.



I find that the best way to sew the elastic together is to lay one piece on top of theother and stitch together.

Step 7: {Optional}

The cuff should stay nicely when you flip it up, but if you wish you can tack it inplace with a few hand stitches on the side. I didn’t do this to mine.

See how easy these are to make? You’ll have a dozen done before you know it!

Giveaway!*This giveaway is now closed.*

I had just enough fabric left over to make a baby pair which I’m giving away.



The pants are size 12 months and would be great for your little Batman or as a giftfor a friend.

You can have up to 5 entries (leave a comment for each one):

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The giveaway will be open for one week and a winner will be selected at random.Give away is open to US and international readers. Good luck!

Thank you so much Alicia!!

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I am already dreaming up matching pants for all my kids for Christmas! Thistutorial is so good and shows how easy making pants can be, especially with oneseam. Are you dreaming up lovingly made pajama pants for those you love?

And how wonderful is Alicia to give the baby pants away!? Will your toddler boy winhis very own pair?! Make sure to enter to win these cute pajama pants.

Alicia has an awesome blog over at The Creative Vault so check it outand see what fun tutorials you are missing out on.

As always, if you’re a craft blogger or bow maker who’d like to submit a tutorial ofyour own, visit our Project Submission Page to see all the details. We make it worthyour while! We love our contributors!

Have a great day! ~ Shirley, The Ribbon Retreat Blog Editor

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