This yoke top, designed by Lauren Guthrie has been on my ‘to-do’ list since seeing it in Issue 5 of Love Sewing magazine in September last year. I wanted to wait until the Spring to make it and as the post title implies, I finished it recently, just after the Easter weekend. Just in time for this lovely weather we are were having!
The skill level is described in the magazine as 3 hearts (think it might be on a scale from 1-3) which I would agree - it was challenging in parts. I recall the need for some Vienetta eating and watching of The Bachelor at one point! Everyone needs some guilty pleasures right?!
The bodice can either be gathered at the seam line with the yoke as shown in the main magazine picture or it can be pleated. What attracted me to the pattern, apart from it being a really pretty top, is that it offers a lot of opportunity for customising in terms of mixing and matching fabrics, piping etc. So many ideas!
Fabric and notions
I bought the fabric that I used for the bodice and collar from Guthrie and Ghani (a coincidence that it happens to be from her shop - not an intentional part of the garment plan!). I bought about 1 1/2 metres of it at the time as didn’t know what to make with it but just loved it.
On a return visit to G & G I had decided on my design of my yoke top - a contrasting yoke section with piping along the horizontal seam. I chose this plain blue cotton for the yoke, some pale blue bias binding for the piping and some yellow bias binding for finishing under the arm holes.
I did originally plan to have the collar blue aswell but I made a hash of cutting out the pieces from the blue fabric and didn’t leave myself enough to cut the collar out on the bias - so I used the patterned fabric for the collar instead (which actually I rather like!).
So here it is…
