Helpful link for making pants

[Sven M]

Hey everyone. I started sewing my own backpack and pants with no prior experience on how to sew anything. First of all thank you from all the MYOG tutorials they helped a lot.

In this post I want to share a link which is helpful if you want to make your own pants. A woman shows from start to end on how to sew a pair of jeans. I didn’t make jeans but I copied some outdoor pants I really like but were falling apart. They turned out very well.

Have fun sewing ;) and if you have any questions let me know.

 

BTW: here my backpack. not exactly ultralight but super cool in my opinion ;)

[Phong D]

Nice work!  I’m looking into making some pants myself.

 

[87 the mountain]

Glad to hear it!!!
Thanks for the thread!
I am about to start pants myog!
I am a beginner

[Mike K]

The link for Angela Kane is good.  I’ve paid for her subscription before and her patterns are printable in .pdf.  They are more of a “skinny jeans” pants.  For denim the domestic machine used might need to be a little more heavy duty.  My advice is to get an all metal machine at a minimum and steer far away from any machine with plastic gears.  My 2 cents on the subject.  Of course light weight materials will be different sewing than denim or canvas with canvas being much hotter than 3×1 twill denim.  Learning to sew felled seams like in Angela Kane’s videos is a real good skill to get.  She doesn’t cover hand sewn button holes however but there is lots of good information on that elsewhere.  Nice looking project you made congrats :-)  best regards, Mike

 

[Jerry Adams]

good work, welcome to the MYOG addiction

I don’t see the reason for making a U.S. style fly.  Just as easy to pull pants down.  Like a pair of sweat pants.  Do pants in the rest of the world have flies like here?

I just make my pants loose, not tight.  And square – the same width from top to bottom.  No benefit to making them flared – that’s just a style thing, hiking around in the wilderness doesn’t require stylish pants, although that’s a personal opinion.  Also, making them loose allows air flow inside – better when its hot, and the dead air provides warmth in the winter.

[David Gardner]

Sven!  Your ergonomic wood pack frame is very cool. Is it “just” plywood, or some other kind of laminate? And how did you shape it? Steam?

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