Sleeveless Simplicity 4589
Should I be a little more creative with my post titles? Or is it better to be to the point? I digress! To get back to what the title of this post is all about, rather than starting on Simplicity 3964 (which is all cut out awaiting assembly) I decided to make the sleeveless version of yesterday’s top, Simplicity 4589.
It looks quite good here, and is well constructed (if I do say so myself) but unfortunately doesn’t look quite as good on as the version with sleeves. It’s fine with my arms on my hips, but has a bit too much armhole “gaposis” when they’re by my sides. It will be okay to wear, but it’s a good lesson that just because a pattern has a sleeveless version, it doesn’t mean that the armhole will necessarily be cut differently to compensate for the missing sleeves. Or maybe it’s just because I look better in tops with sleeves. Oh goodness, I’m blithering, it’s getting late and I’d better go to bed.
Oh, the fabric is mystery cotton from Darn Cheap fabrics (that marvellous $2 per metre clearance table).
I didn’t want to be negative in the last post, so I didn’t mention it, but the underarms of the armholes do look a little large in the sleeved version. You could always wear a tank top under the new sleevless version. I hate wearing two layers in the summer though- its HOT in Texas!
Well done for getting the tops made especially the one which had such a long “labour”. I have fabrics like that – I know what they will be but they haven’t been made yet. Could you make sleeves which sit under the sleeveless one in a contrast fabric- so it looks like 2 tops but isn’t really? My daughter assures me that is how a lot of people are wearing them these days.