for mother's day, i made mom a top using butterick 5608, view c, and this green and gold lotus leaves cotton that i bought online years ago from this online fabric store's closing sale. i only had 1.5 yards of it, so i had always saved the fabric until i knew exactly for which project to use it.
it's funny how something that can look so ridiculous on one person can be so stunning on another. on me, the shirt looked like a sack. thus, my mannequin will provide the model shots... here's the front:
and the back. next time, i'm going to make the part between the 2 shoulders narrower. neither mom nor i have that wide of a back.
i'm sure you all guessed that i had to add my own design element to make the project more of a challenge! how about a line of button and loop closures on the left side of the shirt? not bad right? the pattern doesn't call for anything on the sides, not even a zipper! you can hardly see the buttons because they were a perfect match!!! i found them in the numerous boxes of vintage buttons that carin gifted me.
a zoomed-in view. i added a modesty panel in the back so that in case the buttons were loose or unbuttoned, mom would not be showing that much skin. hehe.
here it is on her! cute isn't it?!?!? i want to make myself a version, once i finish tweaking the pattern to my measurements and once my seniors finish their calc finals at the end of this week! ahh!!! i'm drowning!!!!!
happy mother's day!
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