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Nice top! Thanks for your review as I have this pattern and I'm wanting to sew it.
12/28/08 4:02 AM
Cute top, and great review. I have been looking at this pattern as both tops are very unique. Your review was timely and helpful.
12/28/08 8:16 AM
Nice looking top -thanks so much for the review as I have been thinking of getting this pattern.
12/28/08 9:52 AM
Your top looks great. I ordered this new pattern and can't wait to try both styles. Thanks so much for your review.
12/28/08 10:22 AM
Love your top, great material!!
12/28/08 3:32 PM
Your top looks great! I am just finishing this pattern in a bamboo cotton lycra knit and also had problems with the corners of the front. I think the bamboo makes the knit soft and a little slippery. I'm very pleased with the pattern and will make it again.
12/28/08 5:49 PM
It is not obvious that you had difficulity with the front inset. My girls are not as high as they used to be either, so I followed Stacy and Clinton's advise and got a bra fitting. What a difference.
12/29/08 2:07 AM
Thanks for the review. I have been wanting to purchase this pattern. Your top looks great!
12/29/08 8:44 AM
Thanks for the new pictures. I am working with this pattern this afternoon. After seeing it on you I now know that I also need to lower the inset or it will hit me right smack in the middle of my bust. Now, if I could only figure out where to make the adjustment! Your top looks great on you.
1/1/09 4:53 PM
I agree with everyone - you've made a great top! I ordered this pattern recently and am now even more eager to try it. Thanks for the review.
1/1/09 4:54 PM
The line drawing looks like the inset fits just below the bust like an empire. The fabric is so busy that this top looks great on you. I would lower the pattern for another fabric. Your girls look fine, I think this is a pattern error. I love the shaped hem.
1/1/09 5:06 PM
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate your comments. Mermie, I'm thinking that I just need to add length to the bodice at about the bustline...haven't really thought it through yet. I hope you'll do a review of your top so I can see how it works for you.
1/1/09 6:11 PM
Izzie, the top looks great on you. It's a nice fitting top isn't it? I sewed my muslin two days ago (after reading your original review) and the gathering hit me in exactly the same place, right between the apex. :/ I've altered my pattern to lower it about an inch. I did this by drawing a box around the gathered extension, down past the dot into the lower "princess" side section, cut and moved the section down filling in with tissue where necessary. This worked really well. It looks nicer a bit lower and the neckline doesn't strangle me as much, like it's doing to you too. :) My top now looks more like the photos in CJ's gallery. I find all CJ's tops to be too short in the front between neck and bust point and I'm 5' 4" tall. HTH
1/1/09 8:13 PM
The top is beautiful and the color looks great on you. I agree--I think the crossover part is a little too high; it seems to "cut" into the side of your neck as well. I would think lowering the inset panel about 1.5" to 2" would help. Great review and very helpful as I've been looking at CJ patterns for a while.
1/2/09 8:45 AM
Thanks again, your critiques are very helpful, next time I will try the alterations that Sew4Fun shared in her review of the pattern.
1/2/09 11:37 AM
Izzie, your top looks great.
8/12/09 12:05 PM