Stitch And Bitch ~ In which I finally have time to write this and decide to start on a couple of tops for meeeeeee

Hey Loverlies welcome to Thor's Day

Yeap normally I write this on a Tyr's Day but last night we had a bit of a family emergency and I knew you would all understand.

It has been a very hectic week to be honest what with being reminded that The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain is actually next weekend and not the weekend after !!!!! Oh dears!!! Oh wells .. am onto that paperwork this weekend ... but the biggest issue was finding something to wear.

As with most trades people I have nothing to wear that isn't falling to pieces. It makes sense to me, mechanics always have a broken car and builders a half fixed house. It does really go with the territory and we all accept that. So today I have found that I have a little surplus of certain fabrics hand have decided that I am going to use them for myself !!! Cos I can !!!

So today's Stich is going to be me designing and making my new top, well at least one of them. I have kept it all very simples so anyone can make one .. including me whilst knackered HAHAHA!!!!

Ok so Festival Bloo Pixie Top

measure around your chest and then measure from your top of your boobage to the bottom of your boobage and add 2 inches either side for a side seam unless of course you have an over locker and I am not talking about those abominations !!!

Then you need to measure yourself from under your boobage to about the middle of your thigh ... or whereever you feel most comfy. I personally prefer long and baggy !!!

Right so now you want to cut out your fabric, I had some of a loverly turquoise spandex left over from a very special ice skating dress i made so i used that as my top bit.

I also found a very cheap way of purchasing voile on ebay so i used some of that as well for the "skirt" part of the top.

So there you go 2 squares of fabric :~D

Now this is what i started doing with the voile :~

yes my friends these are "petals" I have needed to make 12 of these to get round my frame in an orderly fashion and I shall be making 12 more double the length of these to go under them ... You may have noticed that I have put 2 together. Yes I have the reason for this will be made clear shortly. However I only sewed the two long sides together at this point.

For the very reason of putting silk petals in the fabric ones lose and adding 3 silk leaves to the top of the petal. Now you might think this was a bit of overkill what i did next but personally i found it made life sooooo much easier when it came to putting everything together.

Yeap I actually sewed the tops of the petals BEFORE attaching them to the top of the shirt. Now I did this due to the delicate nature of the embelishments. If I had sewed them all at once I would have lost a few. So this made alot more sense. once they were all sewn up at the top I started sewing them to the top fabric, which by the way was lots of fun, as it has to be stretched and the voile doesn't. so making sure it was evenly sewn does take a bit of swearing and other such tantrums until it happens the way it should.

I overlapped the petals halfway between each other :~

Right well there you go thats the main bulk of what needs to be done to make this shirt. I honestly am not allowed to show you anymore just now as "Stitch" one of my house pixies has said it is only to be unveiled at the Acoustic Festival Hahaha!!! ...

Anywho the basics are here and all you have to do with the longer petals is repeat the process of the shorter ones. I went for popping them between the shorter ones to give it a more layered flower look. The best part of this top is all you have to do at the end is sew it up the back in one even seam. I use rolled seams they have more security in them than with an overlocker which if you snip a thread the whole thing comes undone. I for one can do without such costume malfunctions thankyou very muchly !!!

So enjoy it .. make your own... it's alot of fun and looks great. And yes for the record I did put straps on it HAHAHA I knooooow who I work with I'm not dumb!!! HAHAHA!!!

Go enjoy it

xox Love and Light xox