Sew Essential Box - January 2025

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One pants pattern, two looks! The Rika Pants are a timeless and versatile design that can feel like tailored trousers or utilitarian workwear depending on your choice of details. Featuring a high rise sitting just below the natural waist, a three-piece waistband, angled front pockets, a fly front zipper, and straight leg, Rika has you covered coming and going.

View A is cropped and tailored with deep hem cuffs, a tabbed waistband, angled belt loops, and rounded back pockets with flaps. View B is full-length and utilitarian with a classic waistband, wide belt loops, and carpenter-style pockets in the back. More...

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With Pattern / Chocolate 8 oz Cotton Twill
With Pattern / Cobalt Cotton Gabardine
With Pattern / Natural 7 oz Cotton Canvas
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Without Pattern / Cobalt Cotton Gabardine
Without Pattern / Natural 7 oz Cotton Canvas

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Pattern

Rika Pants from Closet Core Patterns

Skill Level

Intermediate

What You Should Know

Basic pants fitting, inserting a fly zipper, sewing patch pockets

Notions Included

Matching thread, a pants zipper, fusible interfacing, pocket lining, one button, and a sewing machine needle

Sizing

US Sizes 0-20

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Chocolate 8 oz Cotton Twill - This twill is the perfect chino fabric. Soft, flexible, medium weight, and 100% cotton, it's an ideal fabric these casual pants, a blend of utility and dressiness. But what really sold us on this fabric was the color. Dark and stormy, this deep espresso brown is neutral but never boring. A simply gorgeous fabric!
Cobalt Cotton Gabardine - With a twill weave and structured drape, this fabric acts similarly to heavyweight denim, but with more softness and suppleness. In a delightful cobalt blue, it is serene and saturated, perfect for winter when you need to make your own brightness. A gorgeous fabric if you're looking to make a cheerful pair of pants you'll love to wear!
Natural 7 oz Cotton Canvas - Made from 100% cotton, this fabric is medium weight and supple, with a dry hand a slight nubbly texture. It's the perfect combination of sturdiness and wearability, plus an absolute classic weave. While unbleached cotton may not be a common choice, we love the idea of work pants that can show wear with you, whether it's speckles of paint or hints of indigo dye.

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Love the pattern

I love this pattern. It isn't a good one for beginners due to the lack of clear instructions. It also doesn't really tell you the width of bias binding to use -- odd! -- good thing bias tape comes in the kit. The garment itself is comfortable and flexible but the amount of fabric given seemed pretty skimpy this month.

struggling

I am not exactly a beginner but someone who needs more sewing experiences. This kit is frustrating me more than stretching me: e.g., I prefer tissue patterns for flexibility, manageability, elimination of steps (tracing); am finding red ink hard to read on the instruction; the English translation and abbreviations takes some figuring out (it can be done but why so challenging?); metric measurements also need translating (from instruction to pattern to sewing machine); the fabric is super slinky for someone still feeling her way. I could use a secondary Needle-sharp written tutorial to avoid confusion and frustration. I am only just beginning the sewing part so results remain to be seen . . .if it doesn't turn out useable I will really be ticked.

Lovely pattern and fabric combination

Great pattern and fabric. I love that you do all the main decisions for me! I little disappointed in the amount of elastic thread supplied-definitely needed more than one spool. Also, the fabric is very shear; it really needed a lining on the bodice. So, I did have to go to my local fabric store to get more supplies to finish.

Gotta love quilting!

I liked the fabric and final results but didn’t realize it would take so long to cut out and quilt all the pieces for this vest, and I’m an experienced quilter!

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