Last spring I bought these patterned jeans on sale at Justice for my daughter. I don’t make EVERYTHING that she wears. These are 14 Slims and I still needed to put elastic in the back waist for them to fit well. A relatively easy fix, but that is generally the reason why I make a lot of her clothes. I can’t buy her those yoga pants or leggings, since in order for them to be long enough, they will be too big around the waist. Custom made by mama is a good thing for her.
I knew I would make a shirt to match, since we live in matchy-matchy town here. I was thinking of what to put on it and the song from Poison came to mind.
Every rose has its thorn,
just like
every night has its dawn.
I drew up a rose and then cut out the rose and words with HTV. Of course, I forgot to mirror the words, so I needed to cut them out twice. Ugh.
I created a folder on Google Drive to share the Silhouette files that I make. There is also a link on the sidebar here.
The top here is my tester version of the Love Notions Maggie Peplum.
I had intended to make a top like this anyways, so I volunteered for the test. It is a pretty simple top to put together, and looks rather nice! I did a bit of grading here, with a size 14 shoulder and armscye, graded down to a size 7 waist and 14 length.
The only issue I had with the drafting was that the shoulder width was the same for the size 7 and 14. I think that should be made wider, as well, and not just the neckhole made wider. This was mentioned. I haven’t seen the final pattern yet to see if she made a change to the neckline. I will update if she did.
The fabric here is a hunter green bamboo cotton lycra knit. The color didn’t photograph well here. I was pressed for time, so we didn’t get pictures outside on this one. We are losing daylight each day. 🙁
Nothing like a good peplum…which is also an ’80’s throwback. 😉
