The fourth, and most definitely not the last version of this top, Burda 105 from February 2016. This is the result of a nice big stash bust! In moving fabric from the original stash position in my bedroom cupboard, to it’s new home in the guest room cupboard (until it has a “permanent” home in the sewing room), I came across this gorgeous metallic silver embroidered linen. I bought it in 2009 to make a corset. Needless to say the corset has never seen the light of day, but I did have a decent amount of the fabric left-over to be useful.
Combined with a small piece of cream linen from the scrapbox, which thankfully matched the embroidery, this top was born! I think I might be able to make these in my sleep now. I wish I could, at any rate! Sewing in your sleep while still a. producing something wearable, and b. getting much needed rest would be a super power I could deal with. The metallic linen is sturdier than the cream, because of the metallic finish and the embroidery. This gives the top a more boxy shape than any of the other versions, which I quite like. I love wearing it with my Birkin Flares.
I’ve had many comments on the top, it’s not often you see a lovely fabric like this. I am concerned that the metallic finish might wash off (given the rotation it’s currently enjoying in my wardrobe, this is a major worry!), so I’m washing on a handwash cycle in the machine for now. It doesn’t like the iron, so needs to be pressed on the reverse.
I had to cut the back without a fold and meant to use a centre seam, but in the cutting out, because I hadn’t marked that it still needed seam, I cut along the back edge. Clever… However, because the fabric was to be a corset and I still had all the bits left over, I had a pile of cut and pressed self bias binding. So using a 5mm seam on each back piece, a bias strip now forms the centre back. It looks like it’s supposed to be there on the outside, so I’m not complaining. So another successful stashbust for me!
THE COMPULSIVE SEAMSTRESS 