Our web assistant Pia made these great wide leg Eve trousers, with just a few simple adjustments using the 101 trousers. To make this version you will need the wide leg version of the 101.

Pia used our 12oz Organic Twill in Stanley Tan. The shirt is the Ellsworth pattern, and has been made using the Tumbled Linen Warm White 160 linen. You can find the 101 pattern here, and the Eve pattern here.

These illustrations are not to scale, Pia used a size 8 pattern.

Repeat these steps for the back leg.

If you need any futher help with this hack please do feel free to email [email protected].

Organic Double Gauze – Hattie & Flo

Elwen is wearing the Hattie dress in the Dusty Grape Double Gauze, with the Bucket Hat in Toast 260. The green top is the Florence worn with Eve trousers in Aki. The buttons used for the Florence top are Cotton Pine. Elwen is wearing a size 12 in the Hattie and 10 in the Florence, she is 5.7.

As part of our sustainability switch, we have moved over our cotton double gauzes to an organic base. These double gauzes are made from 100% GOTS organic cotton and are Oeko-Tex certified.

Sewing with double gauze – a helping hand!

Double gauze consists of two layers of fine open woven cotton. They are attached together with tiny stab stitches at regular intervals, in a grid pattern. Because of the double layer there are a few things you can do when sewing to make your life a bit easier!

Stay stitch wherever possible. Stay stitching is when you machine stitch just within the seam allowance on both of your pattern pieces before sewing them together. Areas you’ll want to do this would be necklines, armholes and sleeve heads. Once stay stitched lay your cloth pieces on top of the paper pattern. Now ease up the stay stitches until the curves are the same length as the paper pattern and tie off the threads.
Use a fine sharp needle like a size 10.
Make sure your cloth is completely on grain before cutting out your pattern pieces by pulling a thread on one layer of the gauze, close to the stab stitches.
Pay good attention when pressing throughout the making process, making sure all seams are completely flat. Once your garment is completed it will look a little flat but giving it a good steam will bring those two layers back to life!
To really encourage the texture of double gauze you can tumble it to make it extra crinkly, this may make your garment feel a touch smaller, so much so, you may want to make a size up!

Pattern choices for double gauze

Double gauze lends itself to casual styles. It looks a bit undone, like something you’ve had for years and washed and washed. Don’t pick anything that needs precision like a collared shirt for example. If you want to dip your toe into sewing with double gauze we would suggest the Trapeze, Tee, 101’s or Dress Shirt. Slightly more challenging patterns would be Edie, Sunday, Florence, Camber. These aren’t particularly hard but because they have bias strips you’ll need to handle the gauze carefully.

Co-Ords – Head to toe in your favourite cloth

Pattern – Foreman jacket. Elwen made a size 38 with no modifications apart from lengthening the sleeves by 5cm. The Saltmarsh skirt is from the Workbook and has been shortened by 30cm.

Fabric – Acid House linen, buttons are Nero.