I made a muslin for this Burda top. I made size 34, but as I see now, I should have made it in 36. I'm still quite happy with the results, except that my muslin knit fabric turned out to be too stiff for this top. As you can clearly see in the photo of the back the fabric should have more drape.
Here's the picture of the muslin:
As far as the construction goes, it wasn't as difficult as it looked on the first sight. My instructions were in German - not my strongest suit. I tried to make sense of it, but I couldn't quite get it. Finally, I just wrote the numbers of notches on the fabric and placed them together accordingly. And it worked.
The only thing I don't like is the waistband part. It came out too small. The problem could be the fabric, or I could have made a mistake in construction or that I made it one size too small. I'll figure it out until I make a real version of it. Btw, there's a seam on the front of my waistband that shouldn't be there. I had a limited amount of this fabric and I couldn't cut it on fold.
Also, I noticed that this top is really short.I thought it was longer based on the one on the model. But again, this could be solved with a bigger size.
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Here's another top I made. Inspired (or shamelessly copied) by Adriana's version posted here.
Kwik Sew 3576 - Another jumper
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3 comments:
Hey Maja, this is the great thing about muslins, they teach you a whole lot of things, now you can prepare for the bigger size, (although it might be corrected with a looser fabric) but you know better how tigth it feels, construction is clear now and you can pretty well see if this is "you" or not. That white shirt looks great on you, prolly have to make a knock-off for DD too, she has been asking after it eversince she saw Adriana's version.
i did some random clicking and came upon this blog and i must say that i love both tops!
coco chanel says without copying how can there be fashion.
by the way, jealous of your stomach!
I really like that white one on you. The muslin is quite an interesting top isn't it? Aren't you glad you sewed the muslin first so you could verify and tweak the fit? Now when you sew this you top will be fabulous.
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