So I made another set of separates this week for Indie Pattern Month, this time for me!
Last year of Indie Pattern Month’s Fan Girl challenge, I made the Papaercut Circle Top, now I’ve made my second one exactly a year later! This time I have paired it with the Deer and Doe Plantain!
I bought the fabric for this circle top, oh about November last year in The Fabric Warehouse pop-up sale! It is really summer fabric, I was going to make it for last summer… but alas I’m only getting round to it now!
The fabric is really cool, its striped, mmmm STRIPES, and textured, its really really lovely!
As I had made this pattern before I knew how easy it is! The fabric was a dream to work with too! I only made one change to the pattern and that was to leave off the self-binding round the edge of the circle, as the fabric didn’t really work, the strips were too wide. I looked for a similar knit in my stash in grey to match but sadly I didn’t have one.
So instead I overlocked the edge, folded it over twice and straight stitched all the way round.
I love this pattern, I love how comfy it is, yet how it drapes so nicely!!
Surprisingly this circle top is actually quite warm especially paired with this Plantain, its made from Marino!!!
That brings me round to the second item for this post!
This is the 5th Plantain I have made! LOVE this pattern! It is also the 3rd one I have made in Marino. It works so well as a staple top in the winter wardrobe, I have more marine waiting to be made into more of these too!
This fabric I got from The Fabric Store a few weeks ago, so unlike the cardie fabric is hasn’t had time to be forgotten about in my stash.
Its purple, gosh I LOVE purple!
I think this dark purple works really well with the light bold stripes of the circle top and I have worn them together several times since making them earlier this week!
The Details:
Fabrics: 1.2m of Lightwieght Striped Cotton Knit from The Fabric Warehouse $3pm
1m of Purple Marino from The Fabric Store $16pm
Patterns: Circle Top by Papercut Patterns
Plantain Tee by Deer and Doe (FREE)
Notions: Thread from stash
That is all from me for this week folks (boy two posts in a day, record!)
Laura from Laulipopnz
the circle top looks great in that fabric. Love the purple plaintain as well ;o)
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Thank you!
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Nice work! I like the plantain, it looks like a great winter outfit. Your sewing machine must be running red-hot, you’ve been very prolific! 🙂
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Hahahaha yes it has been a little bit 😉 every spare moment I have been sewing this month, probably doesn’t help that I am surrounded by sewing machines at work!
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I like that circle top a lot. I also love working with merino wool, and have made one shell so far. I intend to make more, with sleeves. It’s a great fabric to wear too. But here in western Canada, it’s pretty expensive.
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Oh I have herd that it is hard to find on your side of the world. Here we have a place called Levana that makes the fabrics and sells them… Maybe they will post overseas?
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I can check it out, although the cost of shipping might end up costing more than the price of the fabric here.
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