Worker Trousers (Womens) PDF Pattern
Our Worker Trousers are the ultimate everyday trouser and our best selling pattern. They are supremely practical with hundreds of you saying they're your comfiest trousers yet. Designed to stand the test of time, you'll be using high end finishing techniques to create a really long lasting pair of trousers.
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Customer Reviews
After completing several versions of the Daphne trousers, I recently purchased the Worker Trouser pattern. This block works well on my body, and I love paying attention to the finer details of the inside of the Modern Sewing Co patterns.
I am an intermediate sewist but remain dissatisfied with my fly finishes, so I purchased the workshop to step through the button fly. I created an extra headache for myself by crafting these in heavy vintage corduroy. I think I will unpick the button fly and replace it with a zip fly because the finish is quite bulky. I found the minor discrepancies between the written pattern instructions for the fly and the video tutorial a little confusing, which is my only reason for four stars versus 5. Overall, the video workshop is terrific, and I love the quiet, calm way the whole process is presented. As someone who tends to race through, it was a great exercise in mindful sewing. I plan to make my next version of this pattern in a more suitable/lighter fabric.
I hacked these pants, so the top half is Worker, the bottom half is Daphne, and then self-drafted cargo pockets and flaps, as seen in the picture. Despite my disappointment with the button-fly finish, I always receive compliments when wearing these pants.
I love everything about those trousers. The comfortable fit and the nices finishes. The stape by stape is really helpful.
Trousers: they can be tricky, trying, terrific or a little bit terrifying. So for this pattern as a first time make I used a cheap cotton drill to see how they would work out before I make them in a more expensive material. I top sewed everything I could, just to have more practice in accuracy and I did the buttoned fly. As I generally fit a size 14 quite well I only made small adjustments to the waist, but added quite a bit of length as I am quite tall. I am pleased with the finish I was able to achieve, but a heavier weight drill would have been better. All that aside I find that they are very comfortable, and I do wear them a lot. Next time I will take a little out of the fullness below the hips to get a slightly straighter profile. Now I have confidence with this pattern I believe I could make a pair in denim as jeans. The instructions were first class as always with Modern Sewing company, so much so that I hesitate to buy other patterns now.