You can save yourself some hassle by making the top an elastic casing but leaving a gap to then thread the elastic through after you’ve stitched the waistband and then seal up the gap to close, that way you don’t have to try and stretch the band and not the fabric while stitching
What do we call these type of shorts? When u had placed thoes shorts flat on the surface of table, its legs or inseams were crossing over each other. While other kind of shorts inseams go away from each other. What do we call this pattern of stiching or what kind of shorts are they?
I think if you trace shorts like this, you need to add like 1/4 in to 1/2 at least in the top and bottom, but I suspect all the way around to account for the hem of each time you sew it. So, if you were to remove the hem at the top and bottom of the old pair and account for where the fabric comes together in the legs and crotch they’d be bigger for you to trace.
Hello, did you allow for the seam only on the left side of the second pattern ? Is that right? And how much? Also what other seem allowance did take into account? Bottom and waist band?
Hello, thanks so much for your question! What seems like measuring a seam allowance on the back part is actually just adding the width of the wider back part which is folded up and hidden. I made the pattern without seam allowance adding it later the sides seam allowance was about 1cm. Bottom seam allowance is about 3cm and the top seam allowance is about the width of your elastic. Hope that helps, happy sewing!