Apples and Pears Peplum Top

Hi!!

lol at the pose, but this is a cute fun top that deserves a cute fun pose. :D plus I needed to add something smiley, in all my other photos I look like such a  grump

So it's been a while. I did go through quite a sewing funk but I am definitely back on track. And making stuff that I truely love. This top in particular. I went to spotlight to buy fabric for a dinosaur costume, and they were having this massive sale. Including all this super cute japanese cotton with the cutest prints. So I bought a meter of this pear and apple fabric. There were two colour schemes and I had such a hard time deciding which one to go for. There was this blue and red and then a pink and dark green theme. At first I was drawn to the pink and green because I don't really have much pink and green clothes so I figured go for something you wounld't normally go for. But after much deliberating, the two girls at the counter were helping me out as well, one liked the pink and green but the other liked the blue and red lol, I went for the blue and red. Isn't it awesome!!!

The green fabric is actually the fabric that I bought for the dinosaur costume. I had tons left over so it made a great lining :)

Anyway, I have been in love with the peplum trend (hate to sound like a hipster) since before it really took hold, and while I am not a big fan of gathers at the waist (I feel it bulks up my waist a bit too much) I had to make this top. I've had it stuck in my head for a while now. Not the fabric, that was a happy coinsidense, but the design. The pattern I used as a base was the Pastille dress from the Colette sewing handbook. I love that pattern. This top is the third in carnation. Mind you I haven't used the skirt portion yet. Just the bodice pattern. I just love the sleeves, although again, didn't use it for this pattern.
So any way, mods to the pattern were no sleeves and dropping the neckline a tad and scoping out the back neck line (? not sure what the back neckline is called :P)

 I think I also had to bring in the sides a fair bit, this pattern seems to run a big large in the bodice area. Maybe because I think Colette cater to women with bigger boobs and mine are a little on the small side :P So since this is top, I didn't use the sirt portion of the pattern, instead I used a large rectangle which I then gathered and attached to the bodice. It's actually a couple of rectangle because I was running out of fabric, but I don't think you can really noticed the seams. I used an invisible zipper at the back, which I messed up at the bottom, but that is sort of lost in the gathers, thankfully.

 

I wore this top when my Mum and I went a watched 'A Chorus Line' which is playing in Perth at the moment. We went to dinner beforehand and had cocktails. That was delicious!! And with this top, a food baby is hidden very nicely :D.

 So definitely a success and I see many more peplum tops in my future :D:D. Also because of the head scarf I felt the need to do a Rosie the Riveter pose. Now to get some muscles so that pose is actually a bit more kick ass :P

Probably more effectively when the scarf ties aren't flopping over my head.

Laters!!!