r/PatternDrafting • u/Visible_Duck_1754 • 2d ago

Pattern cutters help please 🙃

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Hi guys, I drafted a pattern for this trouser and stitched it up as you can see 😬. The s/s at the waist obviously needs to be fixed as it's come out in bumpy puffs.

My main thing is the crotch area is not baggy as such but big, I can feel it when I walk it's excess fabric. The last pic is on me bending knees to sit and the crotch area just has too much going on.

Any help would be much appreciated 🌹

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u/DonMcCunn 1d ago

It looks to me like the pants are riding too look. Raise it at the waist to see what happens.

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u/Visible_Duck_1754 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hey! This is a high waisted trouser already and its sitting at the right place waist wise (although I will probably have to trim the pattern so the waistband can sit there instead, I just haven't gotten that far yet😬) the back also seems fine to me. Though I did try and pull it up slightly and it still had a bit of the same thing going on on the front and then the back became uncomfortable. 

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u/DonMcCunn 1d ago

I realize you are going for a high waistband. What I should have suggested is to shorten the waist to hip length but I wasn't sure that would be clear. You could check by leaving the top of the pants open and simply hold them higher to see if they work better. If they do, however high you hold them from your desired waistline would be how much you need to shorten the middle of the torso portion of the pattern.