My niece asked if I could alter a pair of work pants for her. I admit I hesitated because I really dislike doing alterations and I fear that others will want me to do the same. However because the last year has been so rough on her, I decided to give it a try. She had lost her job and had been working three jobs until she found another full time job. I glad I did. I was very intrigued by the pocket on these pants:
This is perhaps the flattest pocket on pants that I have ever seen. Here is a peek at the inside:
The pocket is one layer with the top sewn into the waist band. Notice the stitch that is used is a stretch stitch. My machine manual refers to this stitch as a Flatlock Stitch. Also if you would look at the waistband in the first picture you will see that a Three Step Zip Zag is used in the middle of the waist band.
Because I am intrigued by the pocket, I decided to figure out how to do it. The little flap at the top of the pocket actually hides the zippered pocket. The flap was about 3/4" deep. The technique is very similar to the technique that I use when making a pillow with a zipper. The technique can be found in this tutorial on How to add a Zipper to a Pillow Cover. That will most likely get the process started. I would think that the flap itself needs to be deeper than the 1-inch in the tutorial maybe 1 1/4-inches. The stitching line in the first phone is the line where the zipper is attached to the yoke. So the yoke is lengthened by about 3/4" plus the return and seam which would probably mean that you need to add 2-inches to the yoke edge at the seamline.
I think I'm going to play with this and see what I come up with. If I do, I will create a tutorial.
What are your thoughts on this pocket?
Happy Stitching!
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