Lunch Box Tee and Culottes 5-12yrs: Digital
Format: Downloadable Printable PDF
Size: 5 - 12yrs
Difficulty:Improving Beginner
Girl’s split skirt and knit top pattern. This pattern features wide, pleated culottes that look like a full skirt but are more versatile. They can be worn for a wide range of activities from biking to turning flips on the monkey bars. Pull-on styling includes front and back inverted box pleats, back elastic, and hidden side pockets. The boxy knit top can be made up as a sweatshirt with pockets that are perfect for storing all kinds of tiny treasures, or it can be sewn up as a T-shirt with cute cuffed sleeves.
Skills Used: Each Oliver + S pattern calls on a unique set of sewing skills. Haven't ever done one of these things before? Don't worry. They'll walk you through it, step by step. After successfully sewing this pattern, you will have developed the following skills: front-hip pockets, flat-set sleeves, knit fabric, in-seam pockets.
Suggested Fabrics: Tee: Light- to medium-weight knit fabrics with at least 25% stretch like jersey, French terry, cotton fleece, velour, and waffle knit.
Culottes: Light- to medium-weight woven fabrics like quilting cotton, broadcloth, chambray, denim, fine-wale corduroy, twill, gabardine, and linen.
Notions: Tee: Coordinating thread, lightweight fusible interfacing (knit or nonwoven).
Culottes: Coordinating thread, lightweight fusible interfacing, approximately 18" of 3/4" elastic.
Also available in size 6m - 4 years.
About Digital Patterns
This is a Digital sewing pattern. It is therefore delivered in PDF format for download and printing at home. There will be no P&P charge and your pattern will be available for use immediately. It may be printed on both home printers (using either 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper) and at service bureaus that handle 36"-wide or A0 sheets. For more information please see our Digital Patterns page.