Success! The top I showed the fabric and pattern of yesterday was sewn today after a trip to town for bias tape for the neck. I love it, it's so soft and drapey....and actually very flattering, will look great with leggings. It doesn't show to it's best on my mannequin. If I had enough fabric sitting around for another one I would have made it today too but being so full and drapey and having that uneven hem it takes a lot of fabric. I have a big bag full of rayon batiks but all just 1/2 yard short for this pattern. A couple of those will end up as the sleeveless version of this for summer. Hmm, tomorrow I'm off to a weaving guild meeting.....I could always leave early and stop at JoAnn's to see if they have anything suitable. I know it's a crap shoot finding a nice fabric there but I'm going to look anyhow. Very productive day between sewing and almost finishing inventory of hundreds of pounds of roving. An Ashland Bay order just came in, 106 pounds that needs to be weighed out into 8oz bags....that will happen sometime next week. 
Friday, February 10, 2012
Success! The top I showed the fabric and pattern of yesterday was sewn today after a trip to town for bias tape for the neck. I love it, it's so soft and drapey....and actually very flattering, will look great with leggings. It doesn't show to it's best on my mannequin. If I had enough fabric sitting around for another one I would have made it today too but being so full and drapey and having that uneven hem it takes a lot of fabric. I have a big bag full of rayon batiks but all just 1/2 yard short for this pattern. A couple of those will end up as the sleeveless version of this for summer. Hmm, tomorrow I'm off to a weaving guild meeting.....I could always leave early and stop at JoAnn's to see if they have anything suitable. I know it's a crap shoot finding a nice fabric there but I'm going to look anyhow. Very productive day between sewing and almost finishing inventory of hundreds of pounds of roving. An Ashland Bay order just came in, 106 pounds that needs to be weighed out into 8oz bags....that will happen sometime next week. 
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Very cute! I love it!
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize you had a shop or that you sell Ashland Bay Roving. I love their roving. I sold it for a while too. I'll know where to go if I need more. :-)
Nice job! beautiful print too. You know, you could always make your own bias binding from the same fabric...;)
ReplyDeleteHave fun at Guild and Joann's.
I thought about making the bias binding from the leftover fabric but it would have required too many seams for the little amount of fabric I had left. I was really thinking about it after I opened that package of bias tape and didn't like the feel of it, but it worked fine.
ReplyDeleteI love everything about your top - the cut and the print are perfect. And you're right, it's going to be just the thing for leggings. I really do like rayon, like the way it drapes. I always preshrink it to the max before I cut though.
ReplyDeleteI love rayon too and I preshrink the heck out of it before sewing too.
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