After finishing the first version of my Burda tee yesterday (I attached the sleeves Saturday morning) I did very little toward working on the second draft.
I don’t have enough of the white fabric to make another identical top so I will use it to make something else. Instead I will move on to the top originally planned for this pattern, using this rayon/lycra knit from Lucy’s fabrics:
I had some qualms as to whether I would ruin it, but you know in the end I am not sure it matters. If I make the changes as marked, it should all be alright and if it doesn’t work, there will always be more fabric.
As I have thought about changes though I have also contemplated tweaking the pattern a little more than I originally intended and I am wondering how far I can go before I have overdone it and made too many changes.
All that has been done so far is to copy the front piece from the first pattern draft and create a full front piece from it. Then I transfered the changes I wanted to make to the white top to the new pattern piece with pencil. I still have to raise up the top edge of the piece, which will require a new tracing. Once I have finished the front piece, I will move on to correcting the sleeve pieces to match the changes that are being made to the underarm seams.
Meanwhile my back is a little sore today and I have been lying on the floor with my legs up over a hassock contemplating the ceiling. We have a post-and beam ceiling and I love looking at the patterns formed by the grain of the wood, the saw cuts, and occasionally the knots. Today I was looking at a knot that reminded me very strongly of a stylized chrysanthemum, something similar but not quite like either of these fabric photos:
In the case of the wooden beam, the parts I see as the petals of the chrysanthemum are raised up from the surface of the wood, almost puffy looking. Sorry there are no pictures, the light and my camera are not up to getting a photo without flattening the effect.
I actually imagine creating a monochromatic version of this (like the wood of the beam is monochromatic), perhaps using silk dupioni, and creating a puffy chrysanthemum using something like a trapunto technique.
Well, enough of dreams for now, and back to pattern alterations.