Three more tops

Both the polo neck and the turtle neck are based on Burda World of Fashion 10/2006 No. 114.  As with the recent ponte top, I used the higher neckline I'd drafted to make the top suitable to take a stand collar. 

I'm unsure what the fabrics actually are.  They've been in the stash a long time, but neither are particularly stretchy and both are remarkably similar in weight/hand/recovery/stretch.   So when I found I had a reasonable amount of fabric left of each after cutting the first two tops, I got creative.  There wasn't enough width in either piece to get another Burda top out, so I turned to my "go to" pattern for making the most of left over fabrics, the Textile Studio Santa Monica Tee.  There is something about this raglan style that allows it to fit onto smallish bits of fabric and I was able to get the body from one piece of fabric and the sleeves from the other.  As a result I managed to squeeze all three tops out of three metres total fabric.



To draw the two colours together in the Santa Monica, and make it seem deliberate, I used one purple thread and one grey thread on the sewing machine and a twin needle, with woolly nylon in the bobbin, to sew the hems and neckline finish.  As the fabric isn't super stretchy, that worked very well and meant I could avoid turning the overlocker to cover stitch.   I've done the hems of the two Burda tops the same way and using the same threads as I really liked the look.

All three tops work with some black denim with coloured stripes that is scheduled to be made up into jeans and a skirt in the very near future.  As I'm currently knitting a cardigan to go with this fabric as well, I've got a nice little capsule in the making.