Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Double Collar Top for Mum

Hi All, the latest project I did is again for my mum. The fabric chosen by my mum which she had bought from Chinatown. I decided to make a double layer collar top as the fabric have many small repetitive flowers and the collar would not be obvious if there isn't any contrasting color.

 I did a collar binding in my previous project Seam binding Peter Pan collar for Mum to make the collar standout. This project is another alternative I tried. One of the collar is wider and have a sharp corner while the other is curve edged.






Gathered sleeves


I drafted 2 collar pattern and overlap them. For the black fabric I've used remaining fabric from previous project. 

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Seam binding Peter Pan collar for Mum

This is another post of a top I sewed for my mum recently. My mum went to Chinatown last weekend to get this polka dot cotton fabric which is made in Japan. For this top I decided to add blue binding around the collar so as to make the collar more outstanding. This is my first time sewing mitered corner, I followed tutorials on YouTube on how to sew mitred corner and it turn out presentable on the right side of the collar (the wrong side is horrible as I have difficulty sewing the bias tape to the fabric). For the bias tape I used cotton bias tape instead of satin bias tape.








The fabric wrinkle after wearing it for a day at work.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Polka Dots Blue top for Mum

This is another top I did for my mum last weekend. My mum bought this polka dot fabric many years ago from Chinatown. My Mum wanted a low cut boat neck design but how could a boat neck be low cut? I then decide to change the boat neck collar to a wide round neck instead. I added collar to it using remaining fabric from the previous blue top project. Material of the polka dot fabric is cotton.