New Look 6816

This is some serious instant gratification sewing!  I actually think that this top took longer to trace and cut out than to actually sew.  Love it!

It looks awesome with my Jalie jeans, and I also think that may be the best picture of me ever taken.

Here is one where you can actually see the top.  It is incredibly simple with kimono sleeves and only 3 seams.

There is a center back seam.  I almost omitted it, but it actually provides some of the waistline shaping that would otherwise be impossible in a top this simple.  I think that the fabric made all of the difference.  I used an unbelievably soft sweater knit from FabricMart.  It drapes around me in lovely ways.  I love it.  It wasn't the easiest fabric in the world to sew, but it wasn't as bad as I feared.  I stabilized the shoulder seams with French Fuse, but left the others alone. I didn't want to stiffen it.

The neckline is just a band, which I did flat, rather than by quadranting and sewing it on as a circle.  This went very smoothly and the neckline lies very flat, which doesn't always happen with the usual method.  The only downside is that you end up with a seam in your neckband.  Mine is at CB.

Oh, more quick and easy knit tops to sew!  It's going to be very hard to go back to sewing for other people when things for me turn out this well!!