This is truly a stash busting project. I made the mesh top from some fabric that has been hanging around for a few years and I could not decide what to do with it.
The tiger trim is Minerva fabric ( which matches my leggings and cycle shorts as well as my track pants/PJs - because I cannot decide what they are best used as!) but not too sure where I bought the mesh from. I have another 3 pieces of it in different colours yet to find a use for. I love mesh tops though but wanted this one to be different and also better made than some of the ones I made before . I just need a change. Ages ago I copied the Frieda Petrenko top.
Its just got bands added to the sleeve and neck edges and its a great finish for mesh. In this case though there is not a pattern. Its another self drafted "squares" top like my many versions of this kind of top. You can get directions here.https://brackencrafts.blogspot.com/2015/12/8-dark-navy-top-with-step-by-step.html
I made this one much longer - dress length because I want something big and baggy rather than figure hugging and maybe I can wear a short slip dress under this - sadly no more orange tiger velvet to make a dress though I have many offcuts which I need to find a use for but I am thinking they will be more knicker sized than dress sized even if I mix with something else like black velvet. The sleeves are also tapered out at the wrists to make them baggy. Before I added the cuffs they had a kind of witchy mediaeval look but it was no good for real life hence the cuffs.
Also for this top I decided though to use a T shirt pattern (Butterick 5562) for the neck shaping here and then just added narrow offcuts of the left over bits from the recent leggings, cycle shorts, track pants and my ruched sleeved top to make this.
And I love it though to be perfectly honest there is a mistake in this. You cannot tell from the pictures but in an effort to encourage anyone who might make a similar mistake: I wanted a selvedge for the hem edge rather than my usual overlocked look for this top and never thought about the fact the stretch will then go down not across the top widthways. Yes I got my selvedge edge but I should have been less lazy and hemmed it or just left it as a raw edge or overlocked edge like the rest of my tops. It still fits, being a large baggy top, but its not how it should be.
The stretch is really best going from side to side accross the top. Never mind. Next time I will make it with the right direction of stretch! I have other colours of this fabric in my stash and I like this enough to do something similar but with different edging ( since I| do not have that much more of the tiger fabric). Though this is my only piece of tie dyed mesh. The other pieces are plain colours.
I have worn it several times so the stretch issue is not actually a problem since its so wide anyway but if I had made a tight fitting top like my original navy self drafted top this would have been disastrous!
Well you can't win them all!
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Bracken
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