you hey everyone Monica here from the beautiful Carolina beach in North Carolina so today I'm going to show you how to make these really cute and comfortable pants that I'm wearing now they're so flowy and pretty so I really hope you enjoyed the tutorial let's get sewing to make your palazzo pants you'll need about two yards of a light to medium weight stretch knit fabric I have a little leftover for another project so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it we're using yoga pants for our template so lay them so the back side is facing up and then fold them in half so now half of the front is facing upward smooth them out adjusting the leg and crotch seams so they're laying flat and you're accurately seeing the shape that makes up the front leg of the pants fold a portion of your fabric over making sure you've laid it out so that it will stretch in the direction I place the arrows here and if you have stripes make sure they're lined up evenly for neatness lay your pants onto the double layer of fabric and pin them into place cut around your pants leaving a half inch extra for seam allowance around the crotch and hip areas and then at least an inch of seam allowance around the legs to create that flowy style fold over the waistband and cut an inch above that too you'll see later on that I actually did have to do some fit adjustments because the fabric I used was so stretchy they wound up being too loose but I still always cut with extra room for seam allowances because you can always trim down the fabric later if it's too large but you can't add more fabric if you cut it too small so that's just a good rule of thumb to remember you'll now have your two front leg pieces cut out so we need to cut out the back pieces this time lay your yoga pants back out with the front side facing up and fold them in half so half of the back will be facing upward smooth them out just like you did for the front but you may have to do some extra adjusting to get that crotch seam to lay flat because it's actually slightly differently shaped and larger than the front waist to allow room for your behind fold another portion of fabric over again with it stretching in the direction of the arrows if you have a striped pattern you'll need to be careful about where you place the yoga pants when cutting the back pieces so that the stripes will line up with the front of the pants so to do this I looked at the outline from where I cut out the front of the pants and then I placed the yoga pants directly across from this basically like a mirror image lining up those pointed areas so that the shapes will line up and be cohesive pin the pants down and cut out the top section just like you did for the front with an extra inch above the waistband and a half inch along the crotch and hip and then I recommend actually laying one of the front pieces you cut out earlier on to the fabric to use as a guide to make sure the legs themselves are the same shape like I mentioned earlier and as you can see here the crotch areas are slightly different sizes but we want the legs to be identical so now you'll have two back pieces which are pictured on the left and two front pieces which are on the right lay your back pieces so the correct sides are facing together take care to line up the stripes and then pin and sew along the curved crotch area with this in all of the seams so with a ballpoint needle and a stretch stitch or zig-zag stitch using a half inch seam allowance and back stitching at the beginning and end the stretch or zig-zag stitch is important because it'll allow this seems to be stretched whereas if you use a regular straight stitch the seams will actually break when you put the pants on and nobody wants that pin inside the two front pieces the same way and you can see here how the seams stretch thanks to that stretch stitch open up both sets of pants and then lay the front and back pieces together with the correct sides of the fabric facing then you'll want to match up the crotch seams and pin them together beginning on either side of the crotch seam pin all the way down the inner seams of the legs and again if you're using stripes make sure to keep those stripes lined up stitch all the way around the inner seam from the ankle up to the crotch and back to the other ankle again using a half inch seam allowance and the same stretch stitch once the inner seam is sewn pinned together the outer legs of the pants and then sew them together along those outer seams and then you'll have something you can try on as I mentioned in the beginning I did have some fit issues but I wanted to show that and not edit it out because sewing is always a learning process I realized they're too big because my fabric was very lightweight and extremely stretchy so that extra given the fabric just caused them to be too big on me but this is an easy fix so go ahead and try them on in I doubt if yours don't fit quite like you want and then pin one side in so that it will fit properly along the hip take them off and trim them down about a half inch outside of the pins and then stitch where you have the pins fold your pants in half and use the newly sown side as a guide to trim down the other side exactly the same way and then stitch that side in place too and voila your pants fit perfectly for the waistband measure the width of the waist of your pants line is about 17 and a half inches and then subtract an inch and a half from that number so 16 inches for me and cut two rectangles using that newly calculated number as the long side and they should each be eight inches tall and make sure the fabric stretches in the direction of these arrows lay the rectangles together with right sides facing together and then pin and sew along the shorter sides fold one of the raw edges down to meet the other raw edge so now your band is folded down in half the reason the waistband is smaller than the pants is to keep them snugly around your waist since we're not using any elastic slide the waistband around the waist of your pants lining up all the raw edges and then match up the side seams of both the band in the pants and pin them all together using a tape measure find the center front of the waistband and pin it to the center front seam of the pants and then find and pin the center back of the band to the center back seam of the pants now we need to pin in smaller increments but since the waistband and pants are slightly different sizes you'll need to stretch out each section of fabric between the pins to be the same size and then pinch the fabric in the center and pin it together and then stretch and pin and smaller increments between those then continue stretching evenly and pinning around the entire waist stretching as you pin is essential so that when we sew the pieces together that bit of extra fabric will be equally distributed along the waist so there won't be any large uneven gathers or puckers so the waistband to the pants and as you sew you'll want to use your hands to stretch the fabric between each set of pins slightly so that the different pieces are even and so that section and then remove the pin and stretch and so the next section continuing until the waist is completely attached now to get the accurate length of your pants try them on and place a pin where you want them to stop and it's more accurate if you have someone help with that then cut a half inch below that pin to allow for him allowance and then trim the other leg to match to him them turn the pants inside out and fold the bottom edge over toward the wrong side of the fabric a quarter of an inch once then fold it again another quarter inch and pin it into place continue double folding and pinning around the entire pant leg stitch the hem in place and for this I did use a regular straight stitch since the legs are so wide and won't be stretched but if you think your pant leg openings will be stretched then definitely use a stretch or a zig-zag stitch like you have with all your other seams him both legs and you're all done with this great pair of flowy Palazzo style pants I made a casual beachy pair but you can change to a fancier fabric for an elegant style thank you so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe for more videos and I'll see y'all soon