carrotflowers

Made: top for my Mom

This is the top for which I made this muslin. It was for my mom, and I really labored over it. First I made several muslins while she was here, trying to get the fit right. Altering patterns is not something I’m experienced in, but I have to say, I also didn’t love the pattern.

My mom had brought me some kimono fabric and I decided to use it on her top. Kimono fabric is narrower than typical fabric here, narrower than 45″. Also in this case, it was from a kimono and had been taken apart. Therefore for the back pattern piece, I ended up sewing fabric together to get it wide enough to cut out the pattern piece!

Project Notes: I did not love this pattern. Mostly what I did not like were the facings that were to be sewn along the inside of each front piece. They were overly large in my opinion, and the directions for sewing them made little sense. I cut them to be a simpler, smaller shape and ignored the directions.

I decided to make my own frog buttons for this top, after I failed to find any I liked at the fabric shop. What an adventure! I bought a loop turner to make the tubing. My method could use some improvement, but I’m glad I did it, I think it added a nice touch to the top.

Mistakes/Complications: The fabric itself frayed like crazy so I ended up using some fray check on it.

Notes for Next Time: Yeah, I’m not so much making this top again. I think maybe my tubing was a bit wide, maybe the buttons look better when made with thinner tubing, or tubing made from a less thick fabric.