How to sew a half elastic waistband

Welcome to a new sewing class. In today’s class, I’m going to teach you how to sew a half elastic waistband onto a pair of trousers.

In addition to learning how to sew a half-elastic waistband, we’ll also practice other trousers elements, such as adding drawstrings and creating a fake fly zip.

The half elastic waistband is usually a flat waistband in the front and an elastic (gathered) waistband in the back.

You will practice all of this with the patterns you will find just below the class video.

Today’s class begins by downloading and printing the patterns where you’ll learn all these techniques.

Remember to pre-shrink the fabric before cutting it. Once we have it cut, we will start sewing a fake fly zip.

Then we will sew the waist, where we will also add some ties (drawstrings) to adjust it better.

For the back of the trousers. I have added a facing that grows outwards where we will put the elastic band.

We will sew all the remaining pieces of the trousers, such as the side seam and the inside seam.

We’ll finish today’s class by sewing the elastic to the back of the trousers and adding a topstitch for support and decoration.

Class

For today’s class, I taught how to sew a half elastic waistband with a facing that grows from the back pattern.

This technique is very common in mass production, but could also be done with a separate waistband pattern.

Remember, if you have any questions about today’s class, you can always email me through your student account, in the support section.

Submit your exercises

You already know that the best way to learn is by practising, so for today’s class, I’m going to ask you to sew the patterns you’ll find below the class video.

Please try to make the photos clear and accurate so I can give you better feedback.

In addition to including photos of the final result, add some photos of the sewing process.