{"id":1063,"date":"2008-12-14T13:47:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-12-14T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T13:47:37","slug":"copycat-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"copycat top"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0644_512x768.jpg\"<\/a><\/center>Melissa<\/a> and I took a patternmaking class at Portland Community College this semester, and one of the assignments was to find a top in a magazine and try to copy it by manipulating the darts on the bodice sloper. I selected the following top out of a Lucky Magazine:
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\"chisato<\/a><\/center>It’s a cotton-angora top<\/a> by Japanese designer Tsumori Chisato, and it costs a mere $315 (it’s on sale now for $158!). That’s not a typo. $315!! Anyway, I thought it was cute and kind of interesting, and I figured it’d be a nice challenge.
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\"IMG_0649_1024x682.jpg\"<\/a><\/center>It was more complicated than I had anticipated, and it turned out not to be an exercise in dart manipulation, really. I ended up taking a t-shirt pattern and just cutting it up by eyeballing the seams. The placket was kinda tough, and really, after sewing the first pieces, I figured there was NO WAY the top was going to come together. I was really surprised that it turned out. I used an organic cotton knit from Lucy’s Fabric<\/a> (I happened upon the site just by googling), which is nice and hefty. Because of all the curves in the pattern pieces, I opted to stitch most of it on my regular machine and clipped the heck out of the curves. For the hem and the sleeves, I used a narrow rolled edge hem on the serger.
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\"IMG_0647_512x768.jpg\"<\/a><\/center>And the back. All in all, it was a fun challenge. I don’t know that I would buy a shirt like this, but heck, I’ll wear it!
\nIn other news, it is blizzarding here, and it’s supposed to get even colder! Makes me just want to curl up under some blankets and eat a lot of chocolate. Speaking of chocolate, Deedle ate an entire bar of dark chocolate yesterday. I thought she was going to die. Instead, she threw up all over her bed, ran around for a while, and then was relatively fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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