Port City Pants – Sew to Grow

Safe to say that Port City Pants have changed my life. I can now make pants in whatever style I want (within reason of course) by using these as a block. For those who don’t know what I mean, I use the base pattern that I have tailored to my body and can adjust the height, length and leg width.

This was another pattern that I worked on at the Fit to Flatter workshop and was VERY skeptical that I could get a pair of pants to fit me/ suit me. Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos of the draft which would be good to see the modifications, so I’ll try drawing it. Below you can see that I needed to grade pretty hard core between sizes. I then sewed a muslin and discovered that it was far too big and I needed to go back down to a 2XL and do a full bum adjustment to lengthen the crotch basically. Once that was sorted, it went together surprisingly well.

Final construction – I decided to do my first pair in suiting with the intention of making a blazer and pants for work. This was a looser fit more like in the advertised photos. I don’t have any good photos of me in those ones sorry but when I go back through my memade wardrobe I will update some of the blogs.

The second pair I decided that I wanted to tackle more like pull on jeans. I downsized and used stretch denim in black and added knit pockets to give a little more ease to get them on. I prewashed this fabric a couple of times as I’ve had it shrink on me in the past (unfortunately it has still shrunk up a little).

Here are some finished photos – There will be more in the pipeline

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Sizing: XL-2XL

Material: Stretch demin (this is about 30% stretch)

Wine pairing: A cheeky Pinot Noir suits these pants. smooth with a hint of funky