Vogue 8817
A couple of weeks ago the Fashion Challenge group on Facebook had “make an outfit for a WAHM who has skype calls with clients”. I had already begun making Vogue 8817 from some leftover stash fabric, and the challenge was the perfect impetus to finish it.
This has been quite a popular pattern (nineteen reviews on Pattern Review at the moment) and I thought that it would be a perfect way to use up large fabric scraps. The printed viscose knit was leftover from my second Tiramisu dress, and I’m so pleased that I found such a good pattern to use the scraps. There was barely anything left after cutting out this top! The grey viscose is from a large piece in stash, and the pink stripe knit has also been used before.
I made view D in size 12, but shortened the top at the shorten/lengthen lines by taking a fold of about 5/8″ (so effectively shortening 1 1/4″ in total). I used the print fabric for the neckband. The neckband was sewn to the right side of the fabric, then folded to the inside enclosing the seam allowances and stitched in the ditch from the right side. It sits very nicely in this fabric. Other seams were pressed towards the grey fabric and topstitched on the grey side. On the pattern envelope model the sleeves are 3/4 length. On me they are 7/8 length – almost long sleeves! Hems were stitched with a twin needle after securing with vliesofix.
I also made the black ponte Elle pants you saw in a previous post to coordinate with the top (and many other items in my wardrobe). And I won the challenge for that week!
congratulations on the challenge win, you have convinced me to try this pattern in different fabrics when I had decided to just go plain all over.
love the elle pants too. if you would like to see some of my sewing the flickr shortcut is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewinglinda141/ most of it is old stuff but now I have a new camera I am slowly updating it.
linda
That is a lovely top. Gloriously bright colours.
Oh I really love this on you and I prefer these colours on you than the brown tones. That pink is really great on you. I think this is one of my favourite things you’ve made. Congratulations winning the challenge.
Oh, hope you don’t mind me saying I’m not fond of the brown. I don’t wear it so it’s not you, it’s me.. as they say!
Hi there Sofie – of course I don’t mind you saying you’re not fond of the brown! As you know, I do rather like my brown and autumn tones 😉 but I am definitely throwing some pink etc into the mix again. I used to wear lots of it!
Regards, Lara
Congratulations on your win. Love the use of plain and print fabrics in your top.
I agree with Sofie, I think this is one of the nicest things you have made and the colours look great.
Clever you – I love this Lara – I really like how you have colour-blocked the top, making great use of the fabric you had available.
You have done a fantastic job of coordinating the fabrics. It looks lovely!
A deserving winner! IMO combining this print with some solids (or semi-solids) really makes it pop. Love it!