Saturday, April 5, 2008

Burda - 03-2008-113 Flouncy Wrap Top Part II

Okay, I'm officially a fan of Burda again. (Honey, I know you were in town when they "were dead to me" but I'm a fan again, hint, hint) I graded this pattern down to my size and Laura was right, it only took a few extra minutes. Thank you Laura!!

Here is the new top.



I found that last time I really didn't like the neck treatment. You stitch the neck flounce and body together with the wrong side of the flounce on top of the right side of the body fabric. You sew them together and then turn that inside and stitch from the outside. I didn't like that way because, on a top like this, you are going to see that inside sometimes. So, I added a third strip to the neck section. You can make the above picture bigger. But basically, I stitched the three together and then folded the extra piece over and caught that in the stitching effectively covering up the stitching on the inside. Here is the inside with that extra strip sewed down.