I am happy to say I am pleasantly surprised how quick and easy it was! I did a few step by step pictures :)
1. Cut the waistband off with scissors
2. Cut the teeth of the zipper about 1/2" down to avoid hitting it with your serger needles
3. Cut the loops off (again, to avoid hitting the thick spots with your serger)
4. I stitched the zipper fly on the one side to ease the pressure and keep it closed
5. Grab any fitted waistband pattern piece you like and cut out as you would like it to fit!
6. Attach waistband to jeans and voila! I found I had to go slow and somewhat stretch it around to get it to fit right. When done, pull up the zipper and done!
]]>Let's start with the pockets - you will need a pattern that has a front patch pocket. With the P4P pattern, the pattern piece has a scoop along the one side where your hand would go if you made it as is. Instead of that scoop, I just go straight across the top then down to meet with the side! Easy Peasy! Another thing I do is cut that top part of the pocket on the fold of my fabric so I have a double layer pocket so there is no seam there, just a fold. You can of course do one layer pocket and just fold over/hem that top raw seam. When attaching it to the body of your cocoon, it attached as usual with a little more slouch since we went straight across, instead off hemming that scoop as per the pattern piece.
The hood, I just used the Hey June lane raglan hood for mine but any cross over hood pattern piece will work! I had cut my hood out as per usual (two sets so its a fully lined hood). When constructing/sewing together, I lay my body of the cocoon, then hood, then band so the hood is sandwiched between. No pulling necessary just fit it nicely!
Thank you for reading along! I can't wait to se all of your slouch pocket, added hood cocoon cardigans! Tag us on facebook Blended Thread Fabrics or instagram #blendedthreadsews
-Hollie xo