I’ve made a new top.
This is, as my title oh-so subtly suggests, the twist top from Pattern Magic; and is my fourth iteration of this top. First three are here, here and here.
Clearly I love this design. And I’ve often pondered upon how much I would like to have one in every colour. Except that would be excessive and wasteful. Bad me, for even thinking it. Bad, extravagant, greedy, covetous me. I guess one good thing about making everything yourself is that you are constrained from having an overly huge wardrobe by your own free time, or lack of it; by having to physically make each and every darn thing yourself. I like to pretend to myself that this factor introduces some carefully considered introspection into the matter.
Ha! We can but hope!
I bought this length of stable, slightly stretchy, thin-but-warm, forest green ponte from Potters Textiles, from the $2 remnant bin. Hmmm, don’t you just HATE when someone brags about how cheap their fabric/pattern/clothing/whatever was? Yeah, me too. Loathe it.
Anyway, it’s the kind of project that you can start and have ready to wear in about half an hour, flat; even including weaving those bitsy overlocker ends back in. Fabric out, pattern down, cut, vroom through the machines by turn, a few minutes of weaving and neckline-hemming. Done!
Believe me, I needed something fast and brainlessly easy, as a little bit of light relief from my 1year1outfit project. Honestly, that’s been a far bigger endeavor that I originally anticipated. But the good news is that the second component of my outfit is actually and finally finished!!! WOOOOOT! To be appearing here very soon. Very very soon.
In the meantime, this.
So, in a nutshell…
One of my favourite designs; check.
One of “my” colours; check.
Is it seasonally appropriate… oh bum. No.
Winter’s practically over and it’s actually getting comfortably warm around about these here parts. Oh well! There’s always next year! As if I have any reason at all to complain about the return of warmer weather, no sirree, not I most definitely do not. Summer, oo yeah baby, bring it. I am so ready!!!
OK I got nothing else! Tootles!
Details:
Top; the twist top from Pattern Magic, forest green ponte
Jeans; Burda 7863, brown stretch bengaline, details here and my review ofthis pattern here
Jeans; Burda 7863, brown stretch bengaline, details here and my review ofthis pattern here
Socks; handknit by me, details here
Shoes; Francesco Morichetti, from Zomp shoes
