I'll give you five seconds to decide what you think I'm making from here if you guessed the
pants you're correct they're like track pants with this cool ruched detail which gives me
actually an exciting opportunity just from like a personal craft standpoint I get to do like the
cord locks I've never dealt with before that type of like cylindrical elastic I don't think
I've really dealt with before we might have to do buttonholes plenty of firsts I hope you enjoy
my journey because it will probably come with lots of struggles I'm going to be extra careful
to not talk while I handle this material at the same time because it's like pants number one are
like this they are snow pants I'm pretty sure my goal after finding this was to find another
pair of pants that I thought were similar this one's way thinner because I think they're more
like track pants and not snow pants as you can see hopefully I think it's a close match
and then when it comes to the ruching here are the supplies that I got first the black cord
elastic very sturdy this one I probably should have gotten it in black but I got it in blue
just for you because then it will show up a lot easier on the camera and lastly I got these cord
locks I've never worked with things before we're just gonna put 40 of them onto pants
doing arts and crafts as an adult means that after you make the mess you have to clean it up yourself
I have flipped the snow pants inside out and I think I'm going to cut off the fleece because I
really do not need to be sweating buckets while wearing this this strategy here is to do sort of
a human centipede situation where I'm going to take the legs of this pair of pants and attach
them to the other pans pants number two come on down okay so expanse number two downside though is
that they've got these white stripes so I'm going to have to figure out how I'm gonna tackle this
I'll save these for later wait these are stitched on I could just seam rip them out yes although
that's not a win at all this is the bottom cuff this is that patch that was useful on the snow
pants to help reduce wear and tear on the inner ankle and now it's my visor she's an artist one
pair of pants is going to be the waist all the way to the bottom of that pant then I have one empty
tube of a pant for each of the legs to get longer I kept the zipper closure from the bottom of the
striped pant and that is going to be connected at the bottom since then I can keep the zipper
closure this metal section was actually a bit wider in diameter than the section above it so
I drew this line right here and we're just going to sew it in take it in a little bit we'll get
this done and then I will attach them all together oh my goodness it just goes on alright it's cord
time I think in the original design there are four channels in total on each leg so like two
in the front and two in the back four channels per leg which is eight channels in total so the
first thing which is daunting is I got to measure how much of this is needed to get the entire eight
channels done and basically that will determine if I bought and Huff elastic I'm gonna go do some
math um all these card loops need to be twenty nine point three centimeters apart and we need
40 pieces in total of elastic so we're just gonna start cutting 50 this is what I'm reading at the
moment and they're used the buttonhole foot on my machine before I want this buttonhole to be
too small for this guy to pass through the distance between the top and the bottom peg
is the width of the hole I got my sample Weiser fabric to practice on yes I have to lower this
it did this all by itself and then I think I just
cut down the middle I'm gonna do that by folding it in half
voila this is becoming a bit of a multi-day jaunt so now the goal is to repeat that but
actually on the pant this time we've added long white lines along the entire length of
the pant these I'm calling channels they are going to be the channel in which the
elastic bands are going to go into these horizontal lines that I've marked are for
me to know where every segment of the channel takes place and every segment of the channel
contains one piece of elastic and one cord lock I'm going to start with the ones closer to the
ankles because those are the ones that are farther from other people that's my tip for
sewing if you're nervous always start with the part that you think less people will see
just as I started making progress my machine decided to go psycho on me I started to make
really loud scary noises while I was sewing and if you've sewn before I'm
sure you've seen this it's just giving birth to this crazed knot now I'm kind
of concerned that there is like a piece of dust trapped underneath here I think
I saw it briefly I guess I'll have to go hunt for a little guy again and then we'll
do a test run on a new piece of fabric to see if everything's back in working order
please don't mind how mangled bees look this is because the lining kind of got caught in
the wrong place while I was doing the buttonhole but the next step is to attach these elastic cords
to the inside of the pants I've attached these little elastic bands to the cords and that's
just to help me be able to fish them out through the buttonhole these strings are coming out of the
buttonholes and I've tied them together in order to make sure that they don't get lost and retract
back where they came from and here is how it looks on the inside I've got all of these sewn in at the
very top I can't attach the plastic cord locks yet because if I attach them I can't sew over it
because they'll take up so much space they won't fit under the sewing machine this is the method
that I've devised and I really don't know it probably just and in fact she was doing more work
than necessary so my assistant julia had a really good idea of slicing the pants apart along the
inner leg seam so that I would have more access to the fabric I wish I thought of this before
the first leg got coordinated but here we are so first I secured the cords with a zig zagging
a zig-zag stitch I brought all the strings through the buttonholes and secured them together and then
I sewed the bias tape over all of the cords on the inside of the pants it was just a straight
stitch up one side of the channel and turned around and a straight stitch back down the other
side of the channel here they are with this side already ruched up and then on this side I did run
out of blue so at one point I just had to bring in some pink bias tape that I had lying around looks
kind of like some weird like gender-reveal party happening on the inside of the pants oh yeah it
was the invisible raincoat if you never saw that one the pink is from that now I'm going to show
you what happens on the outside I get out my cord locks come out come out mr. elastic the elastic
has made it up and so then I can take these off since I just didn't like a little pull through
loop that wasn't a real knot pinch and slide this cord locks on since I cut everything wide
open along the inner leg I just got to put that right sides together and do a stitch up with Mike
down the other leg and then it's done here's how I made these sweetie inspired ruched track pants one
find two pairs of track pants that are willing to sacrifice themselves before the cost to pick
one of them to be the waist and the cuff and one of them to become two tubes three remove anything
you don't want and sew it all into very very very long pants for mark four vertical channels
per leg and so five buttonholes per channel that should get you 40 buttonholes in total five cut
40 pieces of elastic and sew them to the inside of the pants six make sure you have a method to pull
out the elastics because step 7 is to seal all the channels with a long piece of unpressed bias
tape and finally eight pull out the elastics and attach the cord locks together the pants