Oliver + S Lunch Box Tee + Culottes Pattern
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 - 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.
Fabric Guide
| SIZE | 6-12 M | 12-18 M | 18-24 M | 2T | 3T | 4 |
| View A, 44" Fabric | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 1 yard | 1 yard |
| View A, 58" Fabric | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard |
| View B, 44" Fabric | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard | 3/4 yard |
| View B, 58" Fabric | 1/2 yard | 1/2 yard | 1/2 yard | 1/2 yard | 1/2 yard | 1/2 yard |
| View C, 44" or 58" Fabric | 1 yard | 1 yard | 1 yard | 1 yard | 1 1/4 yards | 1 1/4 yards |
Finished Measurements
| SIZE | 6-12 M | 12-18 M | 18-24 M | 2T | 3T | 4 |
| Tee Chest | 21 1/2" | 22 1/2" | 23 1/2" | 24 1/2" | 25 1/2" | 26 1/2" |
| Tee Length, View A* | 11 1/4" | 11 3/4" | 12 1/4" | 12 3/4" | 13" | 13 1/2" |
| Tee Length, View B* | 10 1/2" | 11" | 11 1/2" | 12" | 12 1/4" | 12 3/4" |
| Culottes Waist, Relaxed** | 18" | 19" | 19 1/2" | 20" | 20 1/2" | 21" |
| Culotte Length at Side Seam | 12 1/4" | 12 3/4" | 13 1/4" | 13 3/4" | 14 1/2" | 15 1/2" |
* Measured from shoulder at neck
** Meaurement is flexible due to elastic at back waist