I sewed this crotch together after the leg seams. In the jeans, I sewed the crotch seems, then joined the inner leg seams. I thought that might be my problem, but it didn't fix them.It might look like my crotch seam is tilted, but the picture is tilted. My waist is lower in front than back. You have to tip your head to the right to see it correctly.
I'm pretty sure I need more fabric somewhere, but I don't know where. Now that I get a good look at the pcitures, I think I need to add fabric to the inseam of the legs at the crotch. I suspect that in order to accommodate my large hips, I'm going to have to deal with baggy thighs.
It's such nice fabric, too. It's a rayon blend of some sort that I bought at Patricia's Fabric House in East Rochester. I bought it a few years ago. I grew up there and used to walk to the local grocery store to buy fabric to fill my time with sewing in the summer. Yup, I bought fabric at the grocery store. For you locals, it was a Wegman's. Of course, they didn't carry any good fashion fabric, so I made do. When I was about 22 I moved away, and Patricia's must have gone in while I was pulling the car out of the driveway. Twenty years later, they are still there. I lived in ER in the wrong era. When I first moved back to Rochester, my mother-in-law still lived in ER, so I got out there once in awhile and always stopped at Patricia's. I haven't been there since she died. Too far now.
Thank goodness I have some summer skirts planned. Then I don't have to deal with fitting!
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I was hoping someone else had already chimed in with suggestions so I could just say, 'Yes! She's right!' but no one else has...so I'll throw out a couple of ideas to try on the next muslin...
It looks like the biggest problem is that the back crotch/inseam triangle is to short...I'd try adding 1/2 - 3/4 inches to the point and then tapering it back into the inseam on the back only. That should reduce a lot of that pulling on the back thighs. It looks like the pants need a tinch more fabric right at the low hipline, too, but that could be just because the inseam is pulling. I don't think you need any more fullness in the legs, though, so I'd check a quick muslin just adding to the back inseam/crotch first and see how much that helps.
Hopefully someone else will give you some more feedback and you'll know whether to try my idea or ditch it for a better one!
Alana, I don't think you should suffer needlessly with baggy thighs. I have big hips/belly and keep the thighs narrow on my pants. What I do is to remove a size or two on the inseam, sometimes on the back only, sometimes both front and back. This shortens the crotch of the pants. Your crotch is almost too short so you'd have to slash and add more length at the center back tapering to zero at the side seam, but I think you'll be happy with narrower legs on your pants. Let me know if you have any questions about this alteration.
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