I have a complicated relationship with pants
Cropped Pants
I'm pretty happy with how these pants turned out and I like how they look in the mirror but I feel like the pants look terrible in photos and so do I. I know I have a difficult figure for pants, but I just love a little cropped pant so I'm going to ignore the fact that the fit isn't perfect and they're not the most flattering style for me and wear these like crazy. And every time I wear them I'm going to obsess about how I can make them fit better.
These are navy blue cotton/lycra. I combined my custom trouser pattern and Butterick's B5682 jeans pattern. I really should just learn how to draft a pattern rather than Frankensteining them together.
I used this post and this tutorial to make the waistband, because the instructions just said to use fusible interfacing, which in my experience gives an unprofessional-looking result.
I've also been trying to make the insides as finished looking as possible, and I think I got some nice results with these.
I used flat felled seams on the inseam, french seams on the outer seams and Hong Kong finish on everything else.
This pattern is still a little baggy at the back of the thigh. One pattern drafting tutorial I read said that the inseam of the back piece should be 1-1.5 cm shorter from crotch to knee than the inseam length of the front piece, and that you have to stretch the back piece from the crotch to the knee as you sew for a better fit. This is the first I've heard of this. Can someone weigh in? Does this work with stretch and non-stretch fabric alike?