The first garment I made is a a top that's a muslin of my Sure Fit Designs shirt kit pattern using some really old gray sweater knit fabric from my stash. Still need to do some adjusting to this pattern and I'm afraid the creases in this fabric will never come out, but at least it's done and I now have one more garment to enter in the 6pac wardrobe challenge I'm doing on the Artisan's Square site.
I also made a pair of pants from the Sure Fit Designs pants pattern I am getting close to perfecting using a piece of brown stretch cotton fabric purchased at the Vogue Fabrics booth at the Worcester MA Expo, I believe in 2009.
I wish I had enough of this fabric to make a top to match the brown pants since I love that color brown and think that would be a good addition to my 6pac brown and gray wardrobe, but since this piece was a remnant, I only have a little bit leftover after cutting out the pants. I am still going to try and use it for a top, though, even if I have to use different materials for the sides and sleeves, since I would probably wear a jacket over it.
I am trying to learn a bit more about styling my outfits and would most likely wear some kind of scarf with this top if I were wearing it for "real", but I just threw it on so I could model it for show and tell at my Garment Group meeting yesterday since it was much too hot to wear a sweater knit, even though it is almost the end of Sept. I know I'll soon be longing for these extra warm temps, though, living in the great Northeast as I do...
