 Hi you guys, welcome back to part three of our little sew-along for McCall's 8218. We have been sewing this little cutie and you should already have your cutie little bodice. How stinking adorable is this looking? I'm so excited. I tried it on. It's gonna be great. And today we are gonna be sewing together the pants, the bottom half of our jumpsuit. Just like with the bodice video, I have tons of little tips and tricks, especially when it comes to sewing in the side seam pockets. So you're gonna want to pay attention to that. Before we get into it, click the like button to make sure that other people can see this video too. Subscribe and click the notification bell if you want to get notified of the rest of the videos that go up for this sew-along. Also, if you are brand new here, welcome. I'm Lindsay. I sew all my own clothes and about four times a year I come on here and do a full sew-along with you guys where we work on one pattern together and you see how I put it together myself from start to finish. Also, this video is kindly sponsored by Alyssa. If you're wondering why you're not seeing any ads playing during the video, you can thank them for that. I'll be talking to you a little bit more about their TG 1600 Pro Plus Iron, some of the improvements that they made for this new version. Super, super cool. But all right, that's all I have for the intro. So let's get into it. Let's learn how to make the pants of our jumpsuit. All right, so four hour pants. I gotta be honest with you. I looked over the construction of the pants and I wouldn't do it in this order. Normally, I would attach the pockets first and then sew all the pants together, but because we're doing this sew-along, we're gonna follow the instructions like the pattern says. However, if you watch this and you want to come back and do the pockets first, that is totally fine. All right, so we have our pants back and I always like to keep them on the tissue paper because the back and the front start to look a lot alike. And now I know for sure that this is the back. So we're gonna lay out the back and both sides of the back like so. And we're gonna separate the front pieces as well. And what we're sewing first is the inseams. So just make sure you've got right sides together. Easy peasy. And you should have a little notch that matches up as well. So we're gonna sew all along this seam here on both pant legs at your 5 eighths inch seam allowance. Okay, so now we have like a left side and a right side of our body essentially with these pants. And even though I just said we were gonna follow the order of the of the instructions, we still are, but I have one little hack, one little trick that I like to do whenever I'm sewing anything with a hem. So you can see we've got our inseam sewn here. And this is the hem of our pants. Uh-oh, how did that happen? I'll have to go back to the serger and fix that. What I like to do is before the skirt or the pants or the dress or whatever it is is completely sewn at the side seams. I like to go ahead and press in my hems. It is a thousand times easier to press up a hem when it's flat like this than when it's in the round. Then you're having to slide it over your ironing board, rotate it around, and it's just really, really frustrating. So all right, so we are over here at the ironing board. And I am going to show you how to get an accurate hem on really anything that you are working on. We need to press our seam allowances toward the back so we can go ahead and take our iron and move it over. While I'm here, I'm going to go ahead and talk to you guys about the Aliso TG100 Pro Plus. So this is a bit of a upgrade from their last 1600. This is the Pro Plus instead of just the Pro. And what they improved was this sole plate here. So this is the Diamond Ceramic Flow. And it's basically, if you think about like a nonstick, so a nonstick cooking pan, it's kind of like that. So when you use your interfacing on it, the glue that inevitably melts up through the interfacing is not going to stick to this. It's going to come right off. And also just like the kitchen people tout the even heat of their pans. It's the same thing. The ceramic plate is going to allow heat to be evenly distributed all the way from the tip up here all the way down to the base. And then of course, you can see all of the really great steam vents that we have here as well, allowing even distribution of steam as well. And the steam function actually got a bit of an upgrade as well, allowing the steam to get a lot harder than it did in the old TG 1600. So that is the upgrades on the Pro Plus. Super, super nice. If that ceramic plate you can tell just totally just glides right over my fabric. I mean, this isn't a particularly like sticky fabric or anything, but you know, knits can be a little bit finicky. Let's just, I'm not going to offend the knit too bad, but they can be a little bit finicky. So that ceramic plate really just glides right over. Very easy to use. That also of course makes it more ergonomic because you're not having to use your arm muscles as much to move it around. Cool, huh? Okay. All right, so let's press this guy up. You're going to need a measuring tool and a marking tool. So if I'm taking a one inch hem, I'm actually going to put my marking tool at double that. So if you're taking a five eighth inch hem, you're going to put your marking tool at one and a quarter inch. And then you come through and you mark all along your, that two inch mark or whatever, whatever mark you're measuring at. The problem is, is whatever you are taking a one inch hem and you measure at one inch and then you go to turn up that one inch hem, then you're, the marking that you just made is now needing to be in the fold. And you're like, well, where's the mark? I can't see it anymore. So if you double it up, right? And now you're putting your raw edge on the doubled hem allowance. Now you've got your perfect one inch hem. So that's my little trick for that. Super easy, super simple. And then, you know, just go ahead and get this pressed in really well. And if your hem is not pressing super, super well, you can also use some kind of like wonder tape or something like that. But try and go ahead and get it pressed as best you can using a pressing cloth, using the right temperature and right steam amount on your irons with your irons setting. But as you can see, this Aliso iron is just doing the most beautiful job here with minimal effort. So we've got that pressed in and we're not sewing anything. We are just going to leave that little press in our hem. And then when we go to hem it after the side seams are sewn, that will just fold up naturally and be a million times easier to execute. Alright, so the next step is for us to lay out our pants, where the crotch is like creating this U. So this is the front of our pants. This is the back of our pants, right? And then we need to take the other set of fronts and backs and lay that right on top, right sides together. Your fronts and your backs should line up, meaning both of the front should be on this side and both of the backs should be on this side. You should also have three little notches here that line up and a single notch over here that lines up. And you guys are probably wondering, what the heck is all this? Well remember when I told you that I was going to do that scooping of the back crotch? So this is that line that I drew in with that curved ruler from episode one of this sew along. So I'm not worried about doing it right now. I want to be able to try these on and wear them, but I went ahead and marked it so that I know that it is, so I know where the lines are. Okay, so we are going to be surging all the way from one waist seam down through the crotch up to the other waist seam. Okay, so now we have the crotch seam sewn. And as you can tell, once you take away the seam allowance, the flatness of my bum rarely does become a little bit prominent more up here and not so much, you know, close to the crotch line. So you can kind of see the real difference between my body and the pattern here. All right, now we need, and this can be a little bit confusing, which is why I'm showing you this, but we need to pair up, basically match up our side seams. And right now we have this giant U. And this is how you get it to be looking like pants. You take one side of the U and you lay it flat on your table. And then you take the other side of the U and kind of bring it up through the center like so. So now you have your waist seams together and your side seams are together and your crotch line is like one solid line. Okay, so we're going to be attaching our pockets. So we've got to identify the back and the front. The back is on the table. All right, so when you have your pockets, you have your main fabric and then you have your pocket lining fabric. And remember I told you I was going to do that out of this little lining so that it wouldn't bunch up as much. You could do all pocket pieces out of the lining. Just know that you might see this, you know, so I went ahead and did one out of the self and one out of lining. So but the back pieces get the one that has the self fabric and they get laid down just like this. And so you lay your pockets down like so. And you have some a little notch, a notch here and then a notch on your side seam as well. The first step for the pocket is to sew along these side seams at a quarter inch seam allowance. So you were going to sew the self fabric at quarter inch seam allowances to the back, right sides together, and then you're going to sew the lining pieces to the front at also at a quarter inch right sides together. So it's going to be something like this. So we've got our backs and our fronts quarter inch seam allowances really the most important part here. All right, so now we need to sew these side seams. So we're going to match up our pocket bags and also our side seams, which you just have to kind of feel with with your fingers. And then the pattern has those big circles on it. And so this is what we are sewing at this point. We are coming down from the waist seam, sewing down to the big dot back stitching, skipping this entire area and then starting stitching again and stitching the rest of the pant leg down at your five eighths inch seam allowance. So because this is sewn at a quarter inch and we're about to sew this at a five eighths inch, this is what is going to prevent the pocket bags from being visible. Just with like normal wear, obviously, like if you put your hands in them, that three eighths of an inch is not going to make that big of a difference, but it will help it look nice and pretty when you're kind of just standing around. And then while I'm over there, I'm going to go ahead and sew this as well. I'm going to be doing this on my serger. It gets a little tricky up through here. The pattern instructions tell you to cut into this seam allowance. I don't like doing that because I don't want any more raw edges than I need. And I know that it's not going to fray or anything, but I don't know. I just don't want to cut into it and then just leave that seam floppy. Five eighths inch seam allowance is going to come up through here and meet up with the rest of our side seam. Okay, once you're done with that, then go press everything at your ironing board. It's more of like a steam, especially with these knit fabrics, but I wanted to show you, because I went ahead and did the other side, and I wanted to show you what it looks like when it first comes off the machine, kind of like, I don't know, wrinkly. The seams are all wavy, but then once you put it underneath some steam, they all kind of relax and settle into each other. So if you haven't already, go ahead and do the other side. We've got one more step to cover for today, and that is to get these pockets attached to the front of the garment. So you are just simply going to take this little flappy part and bring it around to the front of your pant. We are just going to baste along the top edge. Now remember, you're folding along the side seam. You're not folding along the pocket seam. Okay, so wherever the side seam is, that is where you're folding over. All right, and there you have it, some pretty pants with an in-seam pocket, where when you go to put your hand in, you will see the pretty self-fabric, and the lining fabric is not going to get caught or be abrasive against the front of your pants, which should allow the pants to lie, the pockets to lie nice and flat against your body and not get super bunched up. Okay, pants are done, bodice is done, and in the next part of this so long, we will attach those two things together, add the elastic for the waist, hem the pants, and then we are done with this jumpsuit. I am so excited. Leave a comment in the comment section below. Let me know how it's coming along for you guys. Also leave all your questions down there. I'm answering them as they come in. If you like the kind of tips and tricks that I'm giving you in this so long, be sure to download my ultimate garment sewing guide of guides. It's totally free and has a lot of really great information about garment sewing in it. I'll leave a link in the description box for you. The Aliso TG 1600 Pro Plus Iron is $40 off and free shipping right now. Another link in the description box. Be sure to check that out. And again, like this video, subscribe, and click the notification bell if you enjoyed it. But that is going to do it for me today, y'all. Thank you so much for watching, and I will see you all very soon. Bye.