These shorts have a strong feature based around the waistband and most of the shirts I own just hang over the top so you can't see it. So I wanted to make a slightly cropped shirt to wear with them.
I had the perfect fabric left over from my fidget quilt in the form of a blue and purple cotton, over printed with gold metallic leaves. I had just enough left to make this shirt.
This was a basic sew. I used the pattern that I created for this top back in 2017.
The only real change I made was to lower the bust dart by about 1.5 inches. I noticed that it was a bit high back when I made the original shirt and now that I'm no longer wearing underwire bras my bust tend to sit a bit lower (ahh the joys of getting older) so it was really out of place.
The shoulder and side seams were french seamed and I used the same finishing techniques as the original shirt - facings on the armholes that are then turned under and top stitched in place, and a binding around the front and back necklines, though this time I made the binding a a lot smaller. I again top stitched the cross over in place and just turned up the hem twice and stitched it in place.
Nice and net on the inside.
I love this shirt as much as I love the original. Cool and easy to wear, and matched beautifully with my new shorts....not to mention my new hair colour.
love it, v stylish outfit, the finish is so well done
ReplyDeleteNice shirt! And nice mermaid hair! 😁 This shirt looks just right with these shorts.
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