Tutorial - KH3 Riku Pants (Patreon)

Okay! Time for a tutorial on how I made my pants for KH3 Riku, I didn't document this process that well so I hope my written explanation with the pictures I have will help you out!

I make all of my patterns myself from scratch but here is the basic idea of how each of the sections looked when I had them cut out! Usually I will take a pair of old pants I no longer wear, cut them apart from the seams and then modify the parts to fit the design I am going for. You can do the same or try and draft them out on paper! I find it easier to just rip apart old clothing since I know the basic measurements will be fitted to me already and all I need to do from their is modify it a bit for my design.

This is the fabric I used for his pants! You can get it from Jo Annes, I liked it because the fabric has a light stiffness to it that I felt would work well for everything going on with his pants.

I started out by cutting out the main big pieces for the pants pattern out of my fabric and sewn them together. Here is a sewing guide on how to put the pieces together, Hope you can understand it ahahah, just sew color to color and BOOM you will have basic pants! For all this I just use a basic straight stitch on my machine, nothing fancy.

I then started to make the many...many belt loops needed for his pants. For this I cut out a really long strip of fabric in a rectangle shape, folded it into itself and then sewed it down into what you see at the bottom of the photo! I cut the long strip into sections at 3 1/2 inches each till I had 24 strips of fabric that would then become my belt loops!

To sew down the belt loops I pinned them all into place like in the photo you see above and sewn the very ends of them down to the base pants by turning the ends of the strips inwards and just doing a quick line back and forth across the ends with my sewing machine. Granted, I should have done this before sewing the pants pieces together but either way it still worked out lol.

For the waistband, like the belt loops, it is just a really long rectangle piece of fabric that I cut out and sewn all the ends together, that way the fabric would be double layered and work better for a waistband. The waistband needs to be more stiff than the rest of your pants which is why you need to double up the fabric on this part. For the belt loops of the pants they are sewn the same way as the smaller belt loops!

The crotch part I added in just for the extra detail but it is optional! Its just the pattern I have up at the top, cut out twice for layering the fabric, sewn together and then sewn down onto the pants where the...crotch...thing for the zipper of his pants would usually go.

The pockets Riku has are these odd outer pockets, they're the same as Soras. To get this shape I cut out these shapes below!

The regular square will act as the interior of the pocket and the L shaped one will be the top part of the pocket. Just flip the very ends inward and sew them down so your rough edges are not shown and sew the two pieces together to make your pocket!

To get the pockets onto the pants I simply just top stitched them down along the edges of the pocket!

To make the small pouched that go along the sides of his pants I cut out two squares of fabric and sewed them together, then cut out a smaller (rectangleish) square pocket for the flap.

The pouches are a bit darker than the rest of the pants though, so I went ahead and dyed the pouches with purple idyepoly to get them a different shade!

The checkered bottom is sort of like how I made waistband! Just cut out a large rectangle, doubled up the fabric for it and sewed down to the pant legs! The checkered fabric I found at Hobby Lobby in their plaid section and could not believe how perfect the print was!

The belts are actually my old Attack on Titan belts! You can get the belts here, I honestly use these SNK belts for EVERYTHING. I cut them apart and repurpose them all the time. 

The belts were originally brown so I bought some black leather stain to make them black like Rikus!

While I was out it I bought some eyelets and punched them into the belts to get them a bit more accurate!

And that is the basic idea of how I made Rikus pants! I am sorry I am not the best at explaining how to go about things, I am still new to making tutorials but if you have ANY questions at all PLEASE ask and I will be happy to help out!