1. When invited to join Selfish Sewing Week and sew for yourself, you jump in without a moment’s hesitation. 2. You immediately clear your schedule – ignore messy house, overgrown garden and hungry children – and get stuck into sewing!
3. You choose a quick and easy pattern so you can double your selfishness and crank out two new tops at once!
4. You don’t skimp on fabric. You dive straight in with good designer stuff you’ve been coveting – because you’re worth it!
5. You take time to sew with RTW (ready-to-wear) details like French seams because your self-made clothes are investment pieces.
6. Finally you gloat about your achievements and boast about them to everyone (see Kollabora.com for more selfishness).
What are you selfishly stitching? Let me know in the comments below.
The Details
Pattern – Make It Perfect Waterfall Blouse digital download
Fabric – One metre of organic cotton batiste from Lebenskleidung and one metre of Italian designer Missoni cotton from Anita Pavani onlineshop.
Sponsor – Thanks Rachael from Imagine Gnats.
oh, that fabric is SO good! i definitely need one of these in my life.
Thanks Rachael! I bet you won’t stop after just one top though, these are addictive!
Oh, I Love the fabrics, the short pants are beautiful. I want to sew a top like yours.
Thank you so much Laia! I recommend this top, it’s so easy and quick to sew. Thanks for visiting my site and if you like my fabrics, you can sign up for my newsletter and get more tips and info about my fabric finds!
I can’t believe you used your Missoni fabric! I don’t know that I could put scissors to a Missoni fabric. I love your Waterfall blouses, too. I just bought the pattern and can’t wait to make some. I need some light summer tops.
Thanks Jill! I admit cutting into good fabric is scary but I’m getting better at it! This fabric was nightmarish to work with though. It’s so delicate, it disintegrated into nothing every time I touched it with the scissors! I forgot to include it in my post, but I distributed the gathering evenly across the yoke seam instead of concentrating it in the middle because mine isn’t a maternity top! Lots of luck with yours!
Your tops look awesome! Thanks for sewing my pattern 🙂
Thanks Toni and thanks for a great pattern!