George + Ginger Anniversary Top

George + Ginger is celebrating their 5 year anniversary this week! The Anniversary Top is the pattern of the month and I can't believe this is my first time making one! I found the pattern printed in my sewing cabinet and went to work making it this weekend. 

I think cold shoulder tops are fun. I have a few and wear them alone and if I do get cold shoulders, I just throw on a cardigan. Today I wore my Anniversary Top and the weather was fairly mild and I found myself putting on and taking off my cardigan all day long. 

TheAnniversary Top is fairly fitted, but I did grade mine out to avoid looking like a sausage casing, Especially since I made scones for breakfast and ate more gluten than I should have today. The Anniversary Top can be made with cotton lycra and I had fun selecting a fun print to use. I settled on this print by Riza Peker that Made Whimsy ran a few years ago (this print is out of stock, but there is stock of a few other prints by Riza). The turquoise matched my glasses perfectly. 

I had a bit of a mishap making my Anniversary Top. I often have to remove length for my height, but I also like my tops long, so I left this one as is. When I tried it on before hemming - it was way too long. I took a hair clip and clipped it where I though I needed to cut the bottom off at. When I got back to my sewing room and  found the clip, I thought I placed my finger where it was when I removed it and placed the top on the cutting table to measure how high up it was from the hem. I measured 7 inches. That sounded like a lot, but it was really long so I went a head and cut 7 inches off. I put it back on and to my horror found it to short now!

I grabbed the 7 inch strip that I cut off and folded it and added it back on as a bottom band. It's still a little long, but better than too short. Now all that was left to hem was the sleeves. I didn't feel like pulling out my coverstitch to only hem the sleeves, so I cut bands for the sleeves too.  I thought  something was wrong with the neck on my top, and after I made it, I went back to the pattern and found that there are two neckline options - high and standard. Who knows when I had made the decision to print the high neckline version. I rarely wear a high neckline. I might go back and cut the neckline lower. 

The Anniversary Top is on sale for $4.50 the entire month of December.   Below are the special sales this week for the 5th Anniversary Sale. 

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