Pattern Help!! - Kate or someone pls help!

Vogue have some nice tops, but I'm not sure about bias cut... Or try Kwik Sew?

Although you might have to experiment, try making up a pattern meant to made with knits, only from a bias-cut woven. I'd first make a muslin to see if it would work the way you imagine, but it should do just fine.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Not a bad plan. :) I got to take a class with Claire Shaeffer a while back. One of the things we talked about, briefly, was bias garments. She said that in some of her workshops, she and her students had found that some woven fabrics get really, completely, out of control when you use them on the bias. Now, what they found was that you needed to add a lot to the seam allowance just to be safe. (the garments would end up so "skinny" on the body, that a super model wouldn't look good.) The extra seam allowance gives you room to let it out if need be. She said that the most they'd yet to find they needed was 4" of seam allowance. (Yes, Four Inches. It boggled my mind too, that's why I remember it so clearly.)

So just keep that in mind. The more seam allowance you can leave yourself the better. And if you turn out not to need it, you can always trim it out later. Wait till you've let the top hang a while, and launder it a few times. That way you will know for sure it's done all it's changing. :)

Good luck. Let us know how it turns out!

Sharon

That makes sense.

There is an article on the Threads site called Bias 101 which covers this a bit.

When doing the v-neck, make sure it's exactly on the straight, and then it won't pull out of shape. There are good instructions for this in 'Lingerie Secrets' by Jan Bones. Watch out for the facing on the neckline - it tends to flip, and you should understitch it as much as you possibly can.

:) Trish