A Ruffled Polka-Dotted Top

If you’re just joining me for Dressin’ Up Week, I showed you a shirt on Friday and a dress on Saturday. For today, I made another shirt. And I gotta be honest here: I love this shirt.

I think I’m going to want to wear it every day.

I fashioned it after this top that I bought a while back. I loved the sheer, ruffled neckline, stretchy waist banded, flowy, sheer, black and white goodness of it. But then, the last time I washed it, all the elastic thread in the waist band started coming out and it’s now worthless to wear. So sad.

I bought this silky white with black pin dots fabric at Joann’s a while back with a coupon. I didn’t really have a plan for it except a top. After buying a few other supplies for this top, it probably cost $10 or less.

I think this top is now the piece of clothing I’m most proud of having made myself. It definitely took more attention to detail and careful crafting. The ruffles, arm holes and waistline (not shown. I like the way it looks tucked in better) are trimmed in black bias tape. Top stitching took it from nice to had to squeal inside my head with delight (Jace was sleeping and keeping him that way was worth more than expressing my absolute joy).

The back is just all one panel with the thin collar that wraps around from the front.

I took pictures along the way to be able to make a full tutorial. If you’d like to know how to make this, let me know and I’ll post one. It’s just more intensive than my usual tops and being able to lay out the shirt it was fashioned after helped me with sizing. But I’m sure a somewhat experienced seamstress could easily make sense of a tutorial.

*****UPDATE: I have created a tutorial for this top! You can see it HERE*****

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