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Posted on: 5/19/19 3:55 PM ET
I'm trying to fit what should be an easy pattern: Style Arc Barb Pants. No matter what I do, I cannot get the crotch right. Visible from the back, there is a horizontal wrinkle just below where the crotch seam and inseam intersect. I just joined Pattern Review so I could submit a photo and get some help, I hope.
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Re: Wrinkles I cant diagnose (posted on 5/19/19 4:00 PM ET)
How do I post a photo?
  
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Re: Wrinkles I cant diagnose (posted on 5/19/19 4:52 PM ET)
I gave up on fitting pants, but love your Title! Many here are trying to diagnose facial and other non-fabric wrinkles.....
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Re: Wrinkles I cant diagnose (posted on 5/19/19 5:06 PM ET)
Your left hip might be slightly larger than your right. Try tugging the outer left hip fabric down a smidge and see if the wrinkle disappears. If it does, you can try releasing the side and waist seams and sewing them back together with a little bit smaller seam allowance, graduating to full allowance by the time you near the hipline for the side-seam and the center-back and center-front for the waist seam.
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Posted on: 5/19/19 6:11 PM ET
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Thank you for your reply. I neglected to mention that my hip is higher on one side; however, pulling down the fabric on that side did not affect the wrinkle. I have looked at numerous web sites and books and haven't found any reference to wrinkles like this. I've also made several adjustments to the crotch seam and/or inseam that didn't make a difference. Perhaps another sewist will know what it is. Thanks for your help.
  
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Posted on: 5/19/19 6:12 PM ET
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Thanks for your humorous reply.
  
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Re: Wrinkles I cant diagnose (posted on 5/19/19 7:12 PM ET)
Try taking a deeper seam on the left side only right where that wrinkle is. In that area you might be smaller on that side. I'm starting to see a little bubbly on one side also.
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Posted on: 5/19/19 7:15 PM ET
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Do you mean a deeper crotch curve? Will that make the inseam on that side shorter than the other?
  
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Re: Wrinkles I cant diagnose (posted on 5/20/19 0:23 AM ET)
Don't make the curve deeper, just pull up the part that is the excess and make that side with a larger seam allowance but just in the area of the excess. It should not affect the inseam. I'm not positive that this will work but it makes sense to me. :)
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Re: Wrinkles I cant diagnose (posted on 5/20/19 6:27 AM ET)
Ok. Thank you.
  
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