Beautiful Handmade Jersey Harem Pants

These handmade jersey harem pants are a fabulous quick make and a really simple overlocker project.

The harem pants project started off as a request from one of my lovely customers. She owned a few pairs and wanted to make some more. She was happy to lend me her ready made ones so I decided to draft a pattern for them. Though her original pairs had been designed to wear for yoga and exercise she wanted to wear them for general everyday wear.

I think they make perfect everyday wear casually and even dressed up for going out in!

It was a good choice because since the pattern has been available in my sewing classes it has been used several times.  Always envied by me, so I decided to make a pair too.

They work really well in the Art Gallery knit fabrics. It’s so soft and stretchy that they are ridiculously comfortable to wear. The fabric is the perfect weight, it is light enough to drape nicely and the elastane content means they hold there shape around the knee and lower leg nicely.

Harem Pants for Every Season!

actually made these ahead of my holiday in July and nearly wore them out in the one week holiday. Worn here with my new favorite white thread-count shirt which I think  smartens them up a bit. I wore them with just about everything on holiday from t-shirts in warm weather to hoodies after the kids had gone to bed for sitting outside having a glass a vino.

Since this original design my customer has made several pairs and is now working on a new Autumn/Winter pair which are full length and she plans to wear with Ugg boots. A brilliant idea to carry these comfy harems into the cooler months.

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Handmade Jersey Harem Pants was originally published 6 October 2017. Updated and republished 9 February 2025.