I mentioned the Style Arc Misty jeans in a recent blog post as one of my favourite pull-on jeans patterns, then realised that I haven’t properly blogged this recent pair. As always, top tucked in only to show you the details of the jeans; I don’t wear them styled this way.

You can see that there is no front detailing at all in this pair; I removed the fake pockets and the fake fly. Not only does it make for a much faster sew, it removed bulk.

I keep the detailing at the back as the yoke improves the fit and the pockets do peek out under many clothes. I often do fancy topstitching on the back pockets but it seems that I was too lazy this time around!  My pattern is well-used now and has some leg length removed and the waistline graded out.

I cut a wide rectangular waistband for these jeans. The width depends on what elastic I have handy to enclose inside it; this time it was quite wide and it’s resulted in a very comfortable waistband. The fabric is what was described as a textured bengaline from Super Cheap Fabrics; it is almost a denim weight and has loads of stretch. It’s definitely much more black in colour than it looked on the website, although the colour was described as ‘charcoal’ so I shouldn’t have been surprised! I generally buy 1.5m for these types of pants.

And a refresher on what the actual line drawing for these pull-on jeans is actually like:

Fabric weight and stretch makes such a difference when using stretch wovens (and knits).  This pair is actually roomy enough for thermals to fit underneath so although they’re close-fitting they’re not as close as leggings.  I’ve worn them frequently this winter and you may have already spotted them as the ‘bottom’ in a few of my earlier blog posts.