Sewing Tutorial: Camilla Wide Leg Pant

The Camilla Wide Leg Pant is the perfect summer pant. These pants are floaty soft and feminine. This style is high-waisted with a wide wide-leg and shaped hem. The waistband is 8cm wide and fitted to the body. Side pockets are fully functional and the opening is an invisible center back zipper.

To begin you will need the following things

Materials

• Camilla Wide Leg Pant paper pattern
• 2.3-2.5m fabric
• 0.5m lining fabric
• 0.15m Interfacing
• 18-20cm long invisible zipper
• cotton thread (enough to also thread your overlocker)

Tools

• scissors
• pins
• sewing machine with a regular foot & invisible zipper foot
• overlocker
• iron

Tips

• Ensure your fabric is washed, dried, and pressed before you start cutting. There is nothing worse than washing your beautiful garment and it shrinks, or even more annoying the lining shrinks and the main doesn’t so it’s all pulled out and shape and is unwearable.

Step 1 

Cut all main, lining, and interfacing pieces accurately on the correct grain, ensuring all notches are clipped. Please note seam allowance is marked on the pattern in a grey dashed line.

Beginner tip* If you can afford to purchase a rotary cutter and cutting mat, I find this more accurate and time-efficient. 

Step 2 

Fuse the interfacing to the main front and back waistband pieces, and lining front and back waistband pieces.

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Step 3 

Starting with the pockets, place the pocket facing face down onto the front of the pants so that the right sides are together, pin together along the edge of the pocket opening then stitch closed. Then press the seam allowance towards the pocket facing and pin stitch.

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Step 4 

Lay the pants flat as shown, then place the pocket bag, right side down onto the pocket facing. Pin along the pocket bag side and bottom. Stitch, then overlock closed.

Beginner tip* When pinning your pieces together try and think about which side you will be sewing from and in which direction and place your pins in a way where they can be easily removed.

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Step 5 

Lay the pant and pocket in place and stay stitch along the top and side of the pocket to hold it in place.

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Step 6 

Overlock the back rise edges separately from the right side.

Step 7 

Sew pant inseam
1. This can be sewn like a normal seam – right sides together, stitched closed then overlock.
2. Or as a French seam – Instructions here

Step 8 

Then sew the pant outer leg, this can be a normal seam or French seam as above.

Step 9 

Next, have one pant leg the right way out, then turn the other inside out. Place one inside the other so that the right sides are together and pin the front rise together, continue to pin for 3cm into the back rise. Then stitch then overlock closed. (leave back rise open)

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Step 10 

Moving onto the waistband. Place right sides together, pin then stitch closed. Press seam allowance open.

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Step 11 

Overlock the bottom edge of the lining waistband from the right side of the fabric.

Step 12 

Then attach the waistband to the top of the pants, pin the bottom edge of the waistband to the top of the pants, right sides together, and stitch closed. (waistband lining will not be attached at this stage)

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Step 13 

Attach the invisible zipper into CB seam, then sew the back rise closed from the crotch point to the bottom of the zipper.
How to insert an invisible zipper instructions here:

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Step 14

Next place the waistband lining right side down on the pant and pin together along the top edge and down the back zipper. Stitch closed, clip the corner at the top of the zipper. Then turn through.

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Step 15

Press the waistband flat ensuring the lower waist seam allowance is pressed upwards into the waistband.

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Step 16

Stitch the back of the waistband to the front by stitching in the ditch of the waistband seam from the right side of the garment.

Step 17

The pant hem can be finished with a 3mm rolled hem. If this is too tricky, I recommend this cheat way of sewing a neat small hem.

The Camilla Wide Leg Pant is now complete.

If you need a cute top or two to wear with your new pants I would recommend the Olivia Sweetheart Bustier for a beginner sewer or The Willow Corset Bustier for a more advanced sewer.

I’d love to see your creations, tag me on Instagram at @at_the_seams_patterns