sewbizgirl

You totally deserve new pants, not cobbled together old ones.

DivaDee

With my ongoing weight loss, when my pants are just too big, I go to goodwill and buy a couple pair. Another thing I do is make a seam centered on each leg. like where a crease would be. I sometimes do it both front and back. Take in on the wrong side so the excess doesn't show. Helps with the legs and rear end. I taper it to the waistband.

farmquilter

Jo Ann, I agree with those suggesting to get some broken in pants, until you find the 'right' new size.
Great to hear of your efforts paying off with the 25 pounds gone.

romanojg

There are lots of you tube videos on this. My favorites are Peggy Seagers, from Silhoutte Patterns and Angela Wolf, make sure when you measure in how much you want to take you do it equally, that means if you want to take in 2 in on each side, then that's 1 in from the part of the leg and 1in from the back leg panel. You divide all alterations across all seams. Then mark where your pockets are now but in where you'll sew. Good luck