Hello Creative Friends
Happy new day to everyone. I hope that you are all doing well and enjoying good weather.
I can boldly say that with fashion, learning never ends. There is always a new design or method of doing things, and the more we learn, the better it gets. In all my years of sewing, I have never sewn a pants flab before. It is one of the things
I believe it to be very complicated. No matter how much I was taught, it keeps appearing vague.
I could abandon sewing a new pant when it is one that has a flap at the front. But for how long will I keep running, and if eventually I get a client that wants to sew a pant with a flap, will I turn them off and lose their patronage?
Today I decided to break that yoke and sew my first-ever short-fitted flap.
I have had this fabric short for over a year now and never got to finish and wear this only because I didn't know how to sew a flap.
Watching numerous YouTube videos can be confusing; hence, I decided to use a similar pair of pants of mine that was sewn with a flap.
I opened up the fabric and cut in my exact pant size. Lowering the front block
Then I started sewing the sides and crotch. The front crotch was sewn halfway, leaving the space for the flap and zip.
Then I measured two different fabrics on the fold, 3" and 7 long for one and 2" and 7 long for the other. This will be used as a flap where the zipper will be fixed.
Then I kept my pants and the shorts I was sewing side by side and was following the steps to sew the flap.
Using pins and needles to hold the zipper to the pant where necessary, since this is my first time, I found it difficult to keep both the flap and zipper still, but the pins were useful .
Eventually I got a breakthrough; the idea of how to sew this sank in my brain very well, and even if I was able to get it sorted perfectly, I was surprised at myself and how neat the flap finishing was. If my first attempt at making this came out pretty well, I was more convinced that henceforth I will see better flaps.
All it took for me was to be a bit more patient with myself and pay more attention.
I have one or two of my work-in-progress pants that I have abandoned because I didn't know how to sew flaps back then. Each time the process of sewing something like this comes up, it's either I avoid it or abandon the sewing for someone else.
Although that won't be the case anymore
I learned about the basics of sewing flaps now all by myself, and all of the mistakes I have observed in this will be perfected to make a better pant flap henceforth.
For the lota of the hot weather this will be just perfect to go with any crop top which I will likely sew soon.
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