Danielle Elsener of DECODECODECODE in London also has an open source pattern (and she nailed the zero waste). I’m not the first patternmaker to do zero waste scrubs in response to covid-19. If you’re in Australia and would like to make hats for nurses, here’s a facebook group that will help you. It wasn’t designed as a surgical cap (I wear it for renovating), but there are some links to free medical hats here. The headscarf I’m wearing is a free pattern on this blog. Since we only have one pair of trousers between us, I’m wearing an ancestor of the scrub trousers – the diamond gusset trousers.
The top is essentially a T shape, with the easiest V neck ever. I’ve also added pockets and a deeper hem. I’ve made the gusset far easier to sew and eliminated the stress point at the gusset’s apex. The trousers are adapted from the diamond gusset trousers pattern described here. (Liberian and Myanmar friends can also rejoice.) USA friends rejoice, it’s in imperial measurements as well as metric. There are no pattern pieces to print out and tape together – the pattern is contained within the instructions, in the same format as Zero Waste Sewing. This is a free, open-source pattern which can be freely shared, adapted, improved upon, emailed to a friend or published elsewhere. Where I have failed, zero waste-wise, you may succeed. It could be zero waste if you cut out multiple garments across multiple sizes – since the pattern pieces are all rectangles – so it has potential. I confess that I failed on the zero waste part after a solid week’s work I metaphorically collapsed into an armchair and conceded that it’s a low waste pattern instead. UPDATE: having problems sewing the trousers gusset? Look in the comments for a solution.
#Scrub top pattern free download full
(The full pattern is at the end of this post – beset by technical difficulties, the only way I could put it in here is as a series of images, for now. This week I attempted to make a zero waste scrubs pattern. There’s a shortage in Australia, in the UK, and no doubt in other countries too. Folks, there’s a shortage of hospital scrubs in the world.