Add Pockets and Subtract the Zipper in Your Favorite Pants Pattern
Learn a quick pattern revision for more functional pants
Growing up I remember my mom and my grandma saying that you couldn’t have a pair of pants or a skirt without pockets. Where else would you stash your hanky? As a teenager, I thought a pocket’s only purpose was to make my tummy pooch out. So when did I turn into my mother?
Mom and Grandma were absolutely right: Pants need pockets. And not the little shallow kind. They need nice, deep, useful pockets. Now, when I encounter a pants pattern sans pockets, the first order of business is to add some. With many of my favorite patterns, this means that I need to work around a side-seam zipper. I could move the zipper to the center front or back,…
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Perfect timing! I needed to know how to do exactly this type of pocket addition to a pants pattern. I was going to buy a pattern to do this with, but now I don't need to spend the money.
Hands down, the best and most influential tutorial from Threads, for me at least. I am now incorporating this into nearly EVERY pants project and will also refer to it for skirts as well.
I used this for my last project and immediately incorporated this technique in my next one.
Still working in an office, so handy now having pockets in my custom suits!