uygur top!!

a sweet student of mine from my 2 year stint in philly (lucky girl was stuck with me for 2 years in a row!) brought me back this beautiful print from xinjiang province in western china, land of the uygur people.  i'd love to go there one day.  anyhoo, determined to tweak butterick 5608 (view c) from mom's mother's day top to my size, i set off with a hell of a lot of pins and tape and revamped the pattern to fit my goofily proportioned build!

it took a while, but i did it.  it finally fits!  the print is bold... very bold.  i wish i had centered the inner facing of the back so that when it hangs on a hanger, the inside looks neat and symmetric.  oh well, it's just the inside...

on the side, i created a button and loop closure like i did on mom's.  the buttons are vintage, from carin, my coworker!  i swear i will have enough vintage buttons to last my lifetime!

around back:

i wanted to get someone to snap a pic of me in the top today while at work, but alas, the day was hectic and i forgot.  here's my best attempt at a self-pic.  a little sketchy, i know.

pretty cute, right?  

off to sew some pants for chaperoning a field trip to kenya.  i leave june 22!  ahh!!!  we're going to be doing lots of manual labor...  in equatorial heat...  yet we were told to wear long pants (cargo-pocket work slacks in particular, but come on, slacks in EQUATORIAL HEAT?)...  i'm going to make myself a couple pairs of thin cotton gauze beachy lounge pants!!!