{"id":81894,"date":"2023-11-06T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=81894"},"modified":"2023-11-04T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T10:33:05","slug":"shelleys-amarena-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2023\/11\/shelleys-amarena-top.html","title":{"rendered":"shelley’s amarena top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shelley, @lightningmcstitch<\/a>, is here to tell us more about her Amarena dress and top.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the tester call out for the Amarena dress<\/a> hit my inbox it was winter in Australia and I knew I wanted to make the long-sleeved View B to wear over a skivvy. But I also adored the collar of the View A dress, so I had to make both!<\/p>\n

\"front,<\/p>\n

For my View B dress, I carefully chose the colours I wanted to use and economised on fabric by cutting all the pieces on the cross grain. The fabric, at 150cm wide, was wide enough to get the length of the dress across the fabric from selvedge to selvedge. I cut each front and its corresponding facing from two 50cm lengths of fabric and the back, sleeves, and back facing from a 1m cut. I fall between sizes 10 & 12 and made the dress in size 12 thinking I might want to wear it over something.<\/p>\n

\"off-white,<\/p>\n

As soon as I put it on, I realised that yep, the pale olive colour looked really weird next to my skin and I needed something underneath. So, I raced back to the shop, bought some lovely, lightweight, navy merino knit, and made up a thermal Metro tee<\/a>. Of course, I couldn\u2019t resist buying the cream, dark green, and black as well and made three more merino Metro tees before getting back to my pattern test!<\/p>\n

\"front<\/p>\n

My view A cropped top is made from a remnant of a jacquard double cotton. If the fabric looks familiar that\u2019s because it\u2019s the leftovers after making my mum this Gallery<\/a>\/Capuccino<\/a> dress combination that was featured on the blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fabric remnant I used was an odd shape, so I can\u2019t give exact yardage, but laying the traced pattern pieces out I\u2019ve worked out what I\u2019d need to cut it from straight yardage. My top is the size 10 and the length was cut at the optional cutting line on the pattern tissue. On either 44\u201d or 58\u201d fabric I could comfortably cut it from 1&1\/2 yards. I suspect that might not change even for the larger sizes, especially on 58\u201d fabric, as the bodices are likely to fit side by side on the folded fabric once the wider skirt sections are cut off the pattern piece. My tip is to trace your pattern and lay it out, then measure what fabric you need before you buy. Or play pattern tetris with the fabric you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

We\u2019re heading into warmer weather downunder and I know this little top will get a lot of wear. I rustled up a few Liesl + Co<\/a> bottom halves to wear it with: An Everyday skirt<\/a> in crinkle linen, a pair of linen Girl Friday culottes,<\/a> and a denim City Stroll skirt<\/a>. Arguably they\u2019re all \u201cfall colours\u201d so maybe I\u2019m on season somehow after all.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Shelley’s adventures in sewing, knitting, and much more on her blog, Bartacks and Singletrack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shelley shows us multiple Liesl + Co looks pairing her Amarena shirt with a few of our popular bottoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34651,"featured_media":81899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[20880,20667,118,199,20853,158],"class_list":["post-81894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-amarena","tag-city-stroll-wrap-skirt","tag-everyday-skirt","tag-girl-friday-culottes","tag-metro","tag-metro-t-shirt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Untitled-design-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-liS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81737,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2023\/10\/amarena-dress-from-our-pattern-testers.html","url_meta":{"origin":81894,"position":0},"title":"amarena dress from our pattern testers","author":"Kari","date":"October 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Amarena Dress is an easy pullover style that takes on a whole new look depending on the fabric you choose. 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