Crop pants

I like good quality cotton lycra pants to wear to the gym and make most of my workout pants with this pattern already. It is my TNT pattern for nicely shaped yoga pants plus I also make both top views frequently as well.

I always buy cotton lycra from Seattle Fabrics.

The crop pants I've seen around are so comfortable looking so I decided to mix it up a little and make myself a pair like these Lands End sport capri pants and set off to modify KS3115.


I retraced the pattern and adjusted the inseam length to 17" but no other changes initially. Then I basted the legs and thought they were too wide at the knee. So, I decided to thin the leg by removing 2'' from the outside leg seam (1 inch from each piece) and 1.5'' from the inside leg seam (3/4 inch from each piece). This was accomplished by tapering from zero at the widest point of my upper thigh, down to the full amount at the hem. Then I transferred the adjustments to the traced pattern so the next pair will be fast to cut out and sew.

I used wooly nylon in the upper looper and clear elastic in the crotch seam.

I also added an outside leg slit for comfort.
Inseam: 16"