Wide Pants - Side Panels

I'd been sewing what I thought was a fairly unremarkable pair of slightly wide blue pants when it turned out that, due to some combination of pattern size and inflexible fabric, the finished pants weren't going to fit me. I immediately pivoted to add colorful side panels and am probably going to add some elastic on the sides in the waistband. There's a zipper in the back, and I love how the side panels make the pants much more like the wide-leg designs I favor.  

Two pieces of cut fabric. The smaller one has a two-tone blue background with bright pink and white flowers, the larger piece has splashes of pink, dark blue, and light blue, with some purple. A side view of partially-complete medium-blue pants with slightly angled panels of the splashy pink/blue/purple fabric inserted where the side seam would normally be





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