Look at these beautiful blue birds! Well they’re turquoise really I would say, but that would have spoiled my alliterative title…
Anyway, the fabric is by Fabric Freedom and I really love it. So much that I made a top out of it.
Check out the real sleeves…
…and the contrasting yellow binding hidden inside.
I wanted to try another Sorbetto but this time with sleeves as sometimes a vest top can be a little too, well, little, especially for spring. I am not clever enough at sewing to add my own sleeves but fortunately after a little browse I found this pattern piece on a blog called Sew Incidentally so I decided to try it. It is for a bigger size than my pattern for the Sorbetto, but I just cut it out as it was then when it was time to add the sleeves I just pinned from the middle outwards and cut off the excess once I’d sewed it… Probably not the actual proper way but it worked a treat! It took me about a week to make overall, but I didn’t have much spare time this week so it was not too bad in fact.
Thanks for your help, fellow sewists of the internet x