Burda Young 7051

My new favourite colour seems to be orange; I can't get enough of it and am wearing it pretty much every day! So when I was browsing the fabrics in John Lewis last week, this gorgeous orange, floral lawn (what a combination!!) just popped out at me. I wanted a quick and easy project to get stuck into, so turning it into a simple summer top seemed like a plan!

I have already had a go the making the burda young 7051- style C, but I wasn't completely happy with the shape on my figure so this time I adapted the pattern slightly by lowering the neckline, creating slightly narrower straps and a racer style back. I was a little nervous about hacking a pattern, as I tend to go for something, quickly ruin it and then regret attempting it...but as I get to understand the basic shapes I'm finding my accuracy is growing!

Having been sewing with my with my Granny recently, she drilled into me the importance of pressing. So set up, next to  my sewing machine was a towel on the table and my iron ready to go (don't say I'm not high tec!) so that I could press as I sewed.

Actually the pressing has made such as difference, the top looks so much better than the one I made previously, where I didn't press at all! I'm a pressing convert...pass me the iron!

I finished hemming my lovely top half an hour before work on Tuesday as I was so desperate to wear it (does anyone else get this excited!?). Here I am ready for work...

Ready for Work