How to Make Your Own Maternity Pants
- 1). Place a pair of pants on a flat surface with the front side facing up. Place a measuring tape tip on the left side seam of the waistband. Measure the pants 3 inches from the left side seam over to the center of the waistband. Mark this area with a fabric marker. Mark 3 inches from the right side seam in to the middle and mark this area.
- 2). Measure and mark the area 3 inches from the crotch seam in the front or mark the bottom of the zipper. Mark the area to 3 inches from the side seams. Extend the marks for the side seams down to the bottom marking. This creates your cutting lines.
- 3). Cut along the marked fabric lines to remove the stomach portion of the pants or jeans.
- 4). Turn the pants inside out. Pin the maternity panel with straight pins to the cut lines of the jeans with about a ½-inch seam allowance. Right sides of both fabrics will be facing each other.
- 5). Sew the maternity panel onto the jeans with a straight stitch. Start sewing from the waistband down one side, across the bottom and up the other side to the waistband.
- 6). Remove the straight pins and turn your new maternity pants outside out.
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