![]() ![]() My first version is made out of some mystery black fabric from my stash. Late to the party but a complete convert and I’ve now made 2! I’ve had the Zadie jumpsuit by Paper theory on my make list for well over a year, and I finally got around to making it up. I have broad shoulders, so thought I could probably pull it off, and also, taking fabric out is easier than putting it back in! I kept the back dart in though. If I cut it off, should I add the width to the other side of the skirt so that it still had walking room? I decided to keep it wide. If I kept it wide, then the Adrienne top might fall off my shoulders, if I cut it off, the Kielo wrap (and walking space below the knee) might be distorted. There is a join down the centre back, so I added a seam allowance for that, but it was still wider by an inch or so. The back of the Kielo is wider than the Adrienne pattern piece. Here I ran into problems, and thought about it for a few days. I attempted to replicate this for the back pattern piece. I fiddled around a bit and then realised that the armhole notches on the 2 patterns aligned quite well, and it looked sort of right, so I went ahead and stuck it there, then cut the top of the Kielo off to keep the shape of the Adrienne only. ![]() I stuck the top of the Adrienne onto the front Kielo pattern piece, aligning the top of the pattern with the place I’d marked on the Kielo. Not sure how this affected the fit, but luckily both patterns are fairly forgiving, I think! This caused the ‘cut on the fold’ edge to distort, so I straightened it out later by adding a wedge back in, but I didn’t sew it as a dart. I folded the dart out of the way on the front Kielo pattern. Using Fabulosew paper, you can see through the 2 layers, so can trace 2 copies simultaneously. This photo shows how I put a folded piece of scrap paper on top of the Adrienne. The Adrienne top uses the same piece for the front and back but the Kielo has different pieces. I traced off the top of the Adrienne, down to the FBA line twice. As the top of the sleeve makes up part of the Adrienne neckline, this was a few inches down from the top of the Kielo. ![]() I held my cut out Kielo pattern up to me and marked on it where the top of the Adrienne landed. It wasn’t a simple process for me, I’m not really a hacker, preferring to have all of the work done for me by the brilliant designers out there, but I just felt inspired for this! One night, the idea of combining the 2 crept into my head, and refused to let me sleep, for thinking about how to do it. Different, but effective, and cleverly constructed. A successful new to me pattern I tried was the Adrienne top from Friday Pattern Company.Īnd I loved it (even though the fabric wrecked my overlocker!).īoth the Kielo and the Adrienne are deceptively simple. I have a long list of patterns I want to try, and sometimes (mostly), the shiny new things take priority over a faithful TNT (Tried ‘n’ True). When I visited the Knitting and Stitching show in October, I bought some fabric with the intention of making another. I love the Kielo wrap dress from Named Clothing, and have made a few over the years.
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