
Day 16: Sparkle and Flow Top
I needed something fun and shiny to wear for an evening of going out with friends/watching the Art Bar Players improv troupe (of which my fella happens to be a member). 🙂 I started out with this:

Oh, and look! My old friends are back!

First, I hacked off the sleeves and neck hole.

My plan is to turn this into a strapless, flowy top, using the bottom elastic waistband as the top of the new top. I did something similar last year, but I learned from a couple of mistakes I made.
First off, rather than just sew down the sides, I knew I needed to make some sort of a gusset, or the top wouldn’t be as flowy as I wanted. I cut up one of the sleeves to make my gusset.

Then, I attached my gusset to one side. If this were a smaller top, I would need two gussets. Thankfully, it’s pretty big, so one will do fine. The sparkly, big pattern really hid my add-on well. 🙂

I wasn’t even trying to match up the pattern, but check it out! I totally did! 🙂
To finish my new top, I took the whole thing in on one side about 4 inches at the top, and gradually less at the bottom.

I threw my fun new top over a pair of skinny jeans, tossed on one of my favorite thrifted necklaces, and dashed out the door to make it in time for the first show!



Cheers!


5 Comments
allendar
Wow! What a difference. Did you go to school to know how to do all these innovations? My hat’s off to you!
ReFashionista
Thanks! And nope…totally self-taught. 🙂
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you are so awesome!!!! please keep up the excellent work! you make me really wish I had a sewing machine…
Kiko
That’s so much cuter!!
chicaandaluza
How wonderful to have a man who can make you laugh, you lucky girl! And another success – it was pretty horrible to start with, and lovely when you had finished!