{"id":2694,"date":"2025-08-11T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:49:00","slug":"more-double-gauze-vacation-vibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/more-double-gauze-vacation-vibes\/","title":{"rendered":"More double gauze Vacation Vibes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pattern Emporium Vacation Vibes Palazzo Pants<\/a>, made of 65\u201d of 52\u201d wide dark sage cotton double gauze, size AU8 short, low rise, modified foxy pockets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I’m still not going on vacation, but I made a second pair of Pattern Emporium Vacation Vibes Palazzo Pants<\/a>. I made my first pair of Vacation Vibes last summer in purple cotton double gauze<\/a>. That was my first time sewing with double gauze and I wasn\u2019t sure whether to iron it or not. I found conflicting advice online and decided to go with those who advised against ironing since that seemed like the easy way out. However, I learned that if you cut and\u00a0sew double gauze without ironing it, it stretches and grows quite a bit as you wear it. My pants ended up being too big. I had cut the high-rise version because generally I prefer high-rise pants. However, I\u2019ve found that, as a petite person, PE high rise seems to be too high on me, and that was even more the case when I used double gauze. So after wearing them, I removed the waistband and about 2 inches from the rise before reattaching it. They are still too baggy, especially in the seat, but quite wearable and I do wear them (but I’m considering taking them apart and cutting them down further).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After sewing a PE Be Mine top<\/a> (modeled with the pants in the photos in this post), I decided to make a pair of green double gauze pants to match. I had a little less than 2 yards of 52\u201d wide gauze left from another project (I’ll post about that one soon) so I did some pattern piece tetrising in Affinity Designer and discovered I could get the pattern into 65\u201d if I rotated it 90 degrees and cut the pants legs along the width of the fabric rather than the length. My gauze doesn’t appear to be directional, so this worked out ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time I thoroughly pressed the gauze, sized down from an AU10 to an AU8, and cut the lower rise. I used the pocket opening line from the high rise so that the pocket opening would not be as low when I added the foxy pockets (I’ve done this with other PE patterns as well to keep things from falling of pockets). I sewed according to the pattern except for the pocket opening modification and adding a second row of topstitching around the pocket bag as a decorative design detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I was sewing I discovered that despite my best efforts, I had managed to stretch the gauze as I was cutting it. This resulted in one of the pants legs being abut an inch shorter than the other. I evened them out before hemming, which meant I could not do the full 2-inch hem I had planned. I serged the hem, folded under .25 inch and then .75 inch and top stitched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think these fit a lot better than my pruple paints, although they are still a little baggy in the seat and the fabric slides around on the waistband a bit. I wonder if they might be better with a shirred waist band. Nonetheless, they look pretty good, especially with my Be Mine top. I also made a sleeveless top from the same fabric as part of a new pattern test, but I can\u2019t show you until the new patten releases. These pants are very comfortable to wear and work with both tucked and untucked shirts. One of these days I will make a pair of Vacation Vibes in some other woven fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pattern Emporium Vacation Vibes Palazzo Pants, made of 65\u201d of 52\u201d wide dark sage cotton double gauze, size AU8 short, low rise, modified foxy pockets. I’m still not going on vacation, but I made a second pair of Pattern Emporium … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pants","category-pattern-emporium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}