Vogue 9057 yet again (now Vogue 1733)
Vogue 9057 has been around for a number of years now – it was voted one of the best patterns of the year on Pattern Review in 2015, 2016 and 2017. It has recently reappeared on the Vogue website with a new number, Vogue 1733, but it appears to be exactly the same pattern as before right down to the cover photos.
I’ve sewn this pattern a number of times, at least six, and it always works for me. From the pattern website: Pullover top (close-fitting through bust) has neckline and shaped hemline variations. Wrong side shows on hemline. A: Raw edge finish and sleeve bands. A, B: Long sleeves. B, C: Neck binding and side slit. C: Sleeveless, armhole binding. D, E: Three-quarter length sleeves and handkerchief hem. Sleeve hem E and hem B, C and E: Stitched in place. A, D, E: Neck band variations.
This pattern lends itself to a wide range of knit fabrics. This is a viscose/spandex from Super Cheap Fabrics. I always find it a little challenging to find white fabrics that are relatively opaque and have nice drape. I sewed view D with view A/B sleeves, in size Medium (I measure size Large, but the pattern is fairly roomy especially in combination with a soft drapey knit like this one).
I used a simple technique to create the neckband twists that I found in a Tilton sisters Craftsy class (by the way, this top is a Marcy Tilton pattern). Basically the two edges of the neckband are offset about an inch and a half then basted together before attaching to the neckline as usual.
The hems have been secured with a simple turn to the inside then a zig-zag from the wrong side that catches the raw edge down with each stitch. I find it a simpler and flatter finish than twin needling on a viscose/spandex fabric (I don’t own a coverstitch machine).
I felt really good in this outfit – the Vogue top, Style Arc jeans, cardi and scarf from Isle of Mine, and Django and Juliette boots.
For my overseas blog readers, it’s about time that I updated you on the covid-19/lockdown situation here in Melbourne, Australia. After having suppressed the virus last year and getting back to zero new cases each day , for the first six months of 2021 we led a close to normal life, right down to being able to go to the theatre! Anyway, in the past few months the Delta strain has proven to be more than Australia can manage (unsurprisingly really, given what we had seen in the rest of the world). It got into the community in Sydney, now into their third month of their second hard lockdown, and Melbourne is now in our second month of our sixth hard lockdown. Australia has been behind much of the world in rolling out a vaccination program, so it’s now a race to get as many people vaccinated as possible while still locking down to slow the Delta spread in those populous states and trying to mitigate the health system overwhelm. The rest of Australia, currently still virus free, is watching on very nervously and also trying to get more people vaccinated. Our issue has been and still is vaccine supply (the vocal anti-vaxxers seem to be having less impact now that the threat of Delta is looking us in the eye).
Dan, Clare and I are all fully vaccinated (hooray!) but Stella is still too young. We are impatiently waiting for when it will be safe to visit Mum in country Victoria again, while counting our blessings that this latest covid-19 incursion didn’t happen until after Dad’s death and funeral and that we were able to be together during that time. We’re also thankful that we have the technology to keep in touch with one another, and I am constantly grateful for Mum’s marvellous circle of friends nearby. Stella still hasn’t done a full term of high school on site, and Clare has done almost all of her first year of uni at home. Dan’s work is still going strong and he’s enjoying the Zoom contact with clients each day. My work is drying up, as we need to go on site in hospitals to do our (administrative) job and hospitals are closed to all but essential staff at the moment. Melbourne has been Australia’s most locked down city since our first lockdown back in March 2020. It’s wearing; everyone is exhausted and irritable and has run out of emotional capacity. Yet I know that this will end. Eventually we’ll have vaccination rates high enough to open up again safely. So now we take each day at a time, and wait.
Lovely top and isn’t it great when you find a pattern you can use again and again. Outfit combination is lovely. Fingers crossed people keep getting vaccinated….we are all a little weary!
Thanks for keeping your readers (such as myself) up to date on the COVID situation in Australia….I live in the Southeastern part of the US, AND Covid is still rampant, however most of the new Covid cases are people who were NOT vaccinated, so we have many more people getting the vaccination…..but still a long way to having a country at the magic number of 70% vaccinated population……so I think COVID will be with us for a long time.
My family is fully vaccinated, and we’ll get the booster this fall……
See you on IG, stay well, Laura Casey
I always enjoy seeing what you make for yourself and your girls. However many thanks for your covid update in this post. I live in Melbourne too and sometimes it is difficult to ‘see the wood for the trees’. The lockdowns seem never ending, but you are right. Amongst the distress of illness and hospitalisations, cancelled weddings and evaporating jobs, there are many things to be grateful for. And we can sew/knit/crochet which really does help to keep the anxiety at bay and produces a Christmas present for someone at the same time!
I have made this so many times . It has become my basic T shirt go too. I have created it in black wool jersey with cream satin Peter Pan collar , a wool jersey dress and a.cardigan as well as multiple iterations of the basic pattern.
Thanks for your thoughts on ‘our’ lockdowns. We live in regional NSW and are under lockdown even though we haven’t had a COVID case – I think forever! My husband and I are fully vaccinated but we have a new great-grandson in Townsville and have no idea when we might get to see him. But we are well and there are so many who are not. We have much to be grateful for.
That’s a great outfit, and the denim looks good too- which Style arc jeans are they?
I think that pair is Style Arc Misty, my fave jeans pattern. Mine is a bit modified now – I don’t include the front pockets, and I make a waistband enclosing the waist elastic, rather than adding an exposed elastic waist as per the pattern.
Thanks! I’ll check them out
Love that seam finish. I get so tired of people saying we must always topstitch…I’ve had no luck with double needles and find it much better on my machine to use an edgestitch foot and zigzag from the wrong side. Hugs to you during the continued lockdowns–we’re able to get out and about quite a bit at the moment in Europe but know more restrictions may be on the horizon.
I love this shirt and am so excited for find someone that made it and several of my other wait list patterns. I was looking for inspiraton on the sydney dress from style arc. I think today is the DAY! at least to pick a final family. I am sad to see how covid has effected your country as well as ours. I am a nurse and it’s shaken me to the core. I have one other question what is a Django- is it a style or just a name- whatever it is love the way you styled it.