… hot on the heels of my turquoise skirt, I whipped (k-chshhhh!) up a little top!
This is made from the leftovers from this little skirt, that I wore to near-death last year. I still have that little skirt actually, but don’t wear it as much nowadays. It needs replacing, to be honest #plotting … Early on I was like, sure I have plenty of leftovers for a little top! story of my sewing life, actually. You know, it always looks like a lot of fabric, and then once you lay down your sleeve piece, which is far bigger than you thought, always, then it’s not quite so do-able. Anyway, I did manage to get a little top out of it in the end, but it’s a little on the cropped side and the neck is more turtle than my originally planned cowl.
But I still love it! I think it’s cute and it’s one of my favourite colours.
The most exciting thing to me about the top is actually these other photos of it… I’d taken it down to Bridgetown when I went down for a few days, for Mum’s citizenship ceremony… and one day I took some pictures of it for my daily outfit blog. And unknown to me, while I was taking pictures, a kangaroo crept up there into my background. How cool is that?! A wild animal! This is an absolutely first for me, even though roos are pretty common around Mum and Dad’s house they’re usually so shy! Though, this particular one is not extremely shy actually; she has a new joey and just seems to be taking it easy for a while, she’s been hanging around the house area, not venturing very far and sleeping for much of the day. But I still consider it pretty lucky that she moved into my pictures! Thanks, darling!
Oh, whoops, forgot to mention some of the all-important sewing deets; fabric originally bought from KnitWit, and the pattern is mostly self-drafted rectangles, except for the armscyes and sleeve caps for which I used Burda 4/2014;111 … only chosen because I just so happened to have it out to cut out a new one.
This is Thing 7, from my “new year’s resolution” collection of 12 that I set for myself:
Details:
Top, mostly self-drafted, sleeve caps and armscyes from Burda 04/2014;111
Skirt at top; Vogue 1247, outback wife cotton, details here
Jeans; Closet Core patterns Sasha trousers pattern, cut with wide legs, cotton corduroy, details here
Both pieces are lovely — I mean the turquoise skirt and this top. Love the cropped length and the colour. What do you call that colour?
Great cropped top and good to see it works with your jeans and also the skirt.
Lovely top, and this brownish red is one of my favourite colors too!
Wow, thanks for sharing the picture of the kangaroo. I live on quite the other side of the world, and never considered that wild kangaroos might amble through a person’s backyard like deer and foxes do here. It’s nice to have wildness around us, as well as beautifully cultivated things. They each have their own kind of magic.
(Just as I typed this a heron swooped past my window and landed – like a little bit of fantasy amidst the suburbia)