I've sewn up my white trees fabric... into a top! I drafted it myself but it is a pretty simple silhouette; basically a big oversized T-shape, with something interesting in the form of the completely open top edge. The top edges of front and back have a full length button and buttonhole placket respectively, stretching from sleeve hem to sleeve hem along the whole neckline, and it's partially buttoned up to close the top of the sleeves. Technically, you could button the top edge up all the way, except that the neckline is curved as an anti-strangulation measure. It's funny though, when you're wearing it you can't really tell the neckline is curved, it reads as an almost straight edge.It is based on several different sources of inspiration: years ago I had a Metalicus Tshirt that had an open top with snaps, that could open like this from sleeve right the way along the neckline; and also a few months ago Kirsty posted plans for her gorgeous top from the Japanese pattern book She has a Mannish Style, a top with a wide buttoned neckline although with separate closed sleeves. I sorta combined those concepts in the design of my own top.Most time consuming bit: I fiddled for aaaages with the spacing of the buttons/buttonhole, so it would both look "right" and also that I could have a button placed just at the point on my shoulders where I wanted it to go. the back view is unexciting, but I know those of us who sew like to see this bit too....
Since the front neckline has a lower dip than the back, the buttons are spaced a little more wide apart along the front curve than the corresponding buttonholes at the back. I sewed up the rest of the top completely, before doing the button/buttonhole plackets along the top edge, this was the last step. The top edges were interfaced with similarly shaped strips of iron-on interfacing and then I sewed the plackets on.What else. Oh, and it's got pockets, too (blush)I fear I have some sort of weird pocket obsession... is pocket-aholic a "thing"? Guess I should sign myself up ;D
Details:Top; my own design, coffee cotton broadcloth, screen-printed by me with little white trees hereSkirt; Vogue 1247, blue damask, details here and my review of this pattern hereSandals; c/o Misano
