Simplicity 8141 has all of my favorite motifs: 3/4 sleeves, drapey business and a quick completion.
I should have filmed the event of me trying to lay out the gigantor pattern piece -with taped portion – on my sewing room floor! I was playing Twister with an invisible squid that cheats! I locked the pups out or it really would have been a party!
Last year I had this crazy idea that I should introduce some solid colors to the Annie closet of gaud. This crepe is from fabric Mart and its reverse worked really well for this. You hem 1 end on the right side, 1 hem on the wrong side then attach 1 shoulder and flip the front of like you are surreptitiously wiping your nose on your hem in an elevator.
What? Everybody does it.
I overflipped or underflupped or something, I never could keep the reverse hem from showing. When sewing nears geometry, I just declare defeat and tuck it in.
This is the shorter length- I wasn’t quite stocked for the longer one- but I tried! The more you mess with this, the more it kind of turns and slides around into this ‘X’, but I do like it. I skipped the back seam and could stand to take the back in a tiny bit for my slopey shoulder fix-
I hope you envy my Milky Way necklace- I have a dork spouse- he buys me very cool things!
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OK Now…I want one of each…the necklace and the wrap! Love you in solid colors! The haircut is very flattering and the deeper color…you put those pumpkins to shame!
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They are my disciples!
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I adore your necklace. And drapey, geometric stuff is HARD, man.
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I rehemmed that to a perforated quality!?
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I like the dramatic drape — it’s dramatic in a good way, definitely! Great color choice, too 🙂
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Thank you- maybe solids aren’t really evil….
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I love this!! You are the greatest Great Pumpkin ever in this super drapey top. And, your husband picked out a fantastic necklace! I had one very similar for years but it finally broke 😯. (PS, the geometry is the best part of sewing 😘)
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I will need you on speed dial next time! I was overwhelmed!
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I love it! Perfect colour and I really like that drape.
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Perfect! And please make up the long one so I can get a contact high… Drapes are a NO-GO area for me but I love seeing them on others.
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You know I love my clothing cocoons!
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This top goes to a new level of fabulosity – the colour, the style, the flattering shape! And the necklace? Totally rocks, I want one!!
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Thank you! I’m liking it more and more.
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Oh i love it and the colour is amazeballs
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Thank you!!! Linus approved.
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You are rocking this! You look FANTASTIC!!! Oh, and I love the necklace, dork or not, the man has taste!
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Oh you are so sweet!!
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Ooooo I just love the colour of your blouse. I think you’ve done well with the drapey-geometric thing, I’d just get confused! And a spouse that gives you Milky Way necklaces, you’ve really hit the jackpot there.
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He made sure to point out that Pluto was included, as it should be!
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Very cool!!! I love your comment “When sewing nears geometry…” I certainly feel like that sometimes! I like the drape. If I made one I would have to lock myself in the living room – and move the furniture out! – without the two cats. (I wish my hubby would buy me such a unique necklace!)
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That colour looks amazing on you! And hats off to you for dealing with the mind-boggling drape. Well worth the effort. But oh what fun the pupsters would have had!!
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They do love a good tissue stomp!
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Looks like a winner here! 3D mental rotation, symmetry and geometry – the things that make sewing challenging and yet so rewarding too. Give yourself an A+
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I blush and fan myself rapidly!
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You could totally wear a long dress under it, too. The necklace is way cool, but I like the candy bar version of the Milky Way better.
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Ooh- that is a great idea!
*both candy bar and dress ideas!
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Love it & the color……I love the other top with the cut out sleeves……try that one in my size & donate it to me!
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Ill get right on it!
Mr B has an irrational dislike of the sleeve cut outs- I’m not sure what that’s about!
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Looks great and the color could not be better. I love anything with a twist.
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I’m developing a twisted interest!
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That’s really cute and looks so versatile. I have the hardest time making myself sew solid colors even though I often look in my closet and wish I had something in a particular solid color.
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Yes!! Me too! I love to mix prints, but sometimes you need that solid color to link the crazy!
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I love pattern/print roo, but have to admit, it is too much, on my shape for a complete garment. I spend a lot of my time with print swatches, tryng to get a co ordinating match. That shawl? looks great, I just don’t know how the draping goes.;p;
Congratulations on a great “make”.
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Loving it!
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I’m going to be making the cold shoulder top from this pattern soon, but I may also make the cocoon topper you did, too, now that I’ve seen it.
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I look forward to seeing some other versions- and somebody to solve my hem confusion!!
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I always knew that you were twisted – and this looks fabulous. Even though it’s plain, although it’s a FABULOUS colour!
I stopped wiping my nose in elevators when they started putting cameras in there. Stopped dancing in there too. Sometimes.
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I like that a lot!
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Aw thank you!
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What a great outfit!
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Oh you are sweet!
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Yay for solid colors! And for husbands with cool taste in jewelry! You definitely need to do more solid colors, prints are fun, but you can do so much more with solids. You look lovely, and I think you need to make up the “cold shoulder” version of this next–it’s not like you have legit winter anyway, right? 😛
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