Dark Blue Organic Jersey Top

This is a failed attempt to combine with my previous linen-wool pants.

The pattern is from Burda, and it was OK, but I had to take off a total of 8 cm of ease, and it is not thight enough to wear inside my wide pants. 

I changed the neck binding though, and used the same pattern I had used in my last jacket. 

The top in itself looks good on me, though, and I will wear it with jeans. 

Linen - Wool Trouser Suit

 There is a web in the Netherlands that sells ecological textiles, and I love it. I had to buy some interlock and as I reviewed all the new textiles they have (to make the best profit of the shipping costs, my good conscience said) I saw this beautiful pied de popule in a linen and wool blend. I have been looking for a blue "Channel" jacket wool fabric for some time now, because I own one that is OK, but the fabric is polyester, and it does not feel right. (I am mad, it seems). So I thought this was the perfect option. 

And then the parcel arrived.

The pied de popule was 10 times smaller than I imagined and the fabric 4 times thinner. Boomer. 

After swearing to myself I would never buy  fabric online again (hahaha), I started to think what to do with this beautiful fabric. I had bought 2 metres because they do not sell halves, so I decided to go for a trouser suit. 

I saw the pattern of the jacket in a BurdaStyle magazine in my local library (which is on wheels and fantastic, by the way). It was perfect for this thin wool-linen mix, had three-quarter sleeves, which meant fabric savvy. The pattern is really beautiful, and it has proved so in sewing and wearing it. Burda never disappoints, their patterns are great, specially sleeve caps. 

The pattern for the trousers came also in BurdaStyle magazine. It was wide trousers, but I took 8 cm off in the first fitting, goodness, they were enormous!!! 

So, this pattern for the trousers did not please me very much... I have yet to find the perfect pattern for wide trousers, and I am starting to suspect it might not even exist... because of my body type. But I have not desisted yet! I am planing on some wool crepe wide pants, we will see...