Catching up with blogging - Bjorn Again

Me-Made-May has highlighted the fact that I have several items that I made a while ago that I haven't blogged.  I started a post about several tops that I have made, which was just going to be a short post, with a brief overview of each top.... The brief post became epic, so I have split it into individual posts after all. Here is the first post starting with the oldest and silliest top in the group!

Enter Pink Chiffon.....

Something silly for Bjorn Again

An Abba tribute band, came to my local town last summer .  Apparently people often dress up to see them so I thought I would join in, although I was the only one in my group to do so,  I have had these somewhat garish trousers for 20 years - they glow slightly in ultraviolet light - they are hideous but at the same time great! I never know what to wear with them, so thought I would knock something up.  I just happened to have some bright pink polyester chiffon in my stash (as you do), which I thought might be appropriate!

The top is pretty much a circle with a hole cut for the neck. I bound the hole with some satin bias tape and sewed two lines halfway up the semi circle to create a space for my body and sleeve areas. It was just the thing for a silly night out and my friends couldn't believe that I had made it!

Leopard Print

A little peek at what I'm working on.

Eldest chose the fabric from one of M Rosenberg fabric sales at Trumpington village hall. She didn't know what she wanted - she just liked the fabric.  I suggested a loose tunic-y type top and she seemed happy with that so I decided on the Burdastyle Anda pattern, mainly becuase I already had the pattern printed out.

I realised that the smallest size was much too big for Eldest, so had a fair crack at grading the pattern down a couple of sizes. It is a very simple pattern, I'm not sure I'd tackle anything more complicated!  I think I went down to a 34 or 32.


The pattern pieces were super long, and as we were thinking of a tunic, I must have cut off over 30cm off the pattern piece.  When it came to laying out, I realised that this shortening of the dress/tunic left me with just enough to make a top for me - yay!

 

I have gone for a Colette patterns Sorbetto, it's free and it fitted on the piece of fabric. Having made a couple of Sorbetto's last year, I decided to lower the bust point by about 2cms. I have inverted the pleat, just for a something a bit different.  I have bought some golden lace trim to possibley go around the neck, but I think less is more on this particular print! I have finished this and was planning to wear this at New Year. When I put it on, however, I felt that it made me look somewhat matronly - When I finish the tunic I will take some pictures of both tops and you can let me know what you think!
I started these both before New Year, but still have a lot to do on the tunic so hope that it will qualify for  Pretty Grievances Jungle January