Long and short pants for winter days, these shorts look super cute over leggings, especially stripey ones!

Cosy garter st pants and shorts, with shaping in the rear.

Pattern includes instructions for the shorts and the longs.

Sizes
40.5 (43, 45.5, 48, 50.5) cm chest (Child measurements)

Yarn
Wool or wool blend sport weight or light DK yarn. Approximately 166 m (181 yd) to 50g (1.76 oz)
I have used a DK wool at 137m to 50g and another at 166m to 50g and both have worked well.

Pants Yarn 312 (364 442 494 650) metres

Shorts Yarn 156 (208 260 312 390) metres

Needles
Unless otherwise noted all garments use
3.25 mm (US 3 UK 10)
(Or size needed to achieve gauge)
I use circular needles, however all of these patterns can be worked on straight needles.
Further information on notions and yarn amounts are listed under each pattern.

Gauge
24 sts x 50 rows = 10 cm (4 in) in garter st

Skills
Advanced beginner, can read a pattern, increase, decrease, cast on and off, work a yarn over.

Part of the “Garter stitch plain and simple” collection