Big Tops, Knit tops for winter

At least I had a coupon for this splurge

I don't want to screw it up. I went to look for Miyake sweater examples and really didn't find much to tempt me

So I'm trying out things  The Style Arc Brooklyn uses some of that acrylic backed faux sweater knit, which is really heavy (heavier and stiffer than scuba to some extent) The Freya and the Winnie I have made before. The Iris (similar but larger collar than Freya) and the Jasper are in there to poke my brain.

Heaps of ideas all scrambled together

Remember the Bristol? So glad i tagged that post with the chicken tag

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-i-bought-at-sewexpo-today.html

I made one at one point and it was a dud, so dud it went straight to the recycle bin. I was so full of myself in 2015. I think everyone learns more from the duds, frankly.

And there was this with the Freya and the Winnie Style Arcs

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-couple-of-style-arc-knit-tops-that.html

In the meantime, I finally decided what to do with the sweatshirt dress

original Etsy image, more color accurate. 

It was a hot mess as sewn. The pockets were on the side seams; if I had stabilized them, they would have looked terrible. So I sat on this for a year. To avoid working on the stuff I needed to be working on, I sliced and reattached this.

I am liking it, better photo later.

And the horizontal seam made me think

The width at the midwaist does not work: I have altered that

I've done purposely ridged seams before, even it does feel sloppy.

It's a recycled knit pullover with a huge pieced cowl collar (photo shows serger seaming)

I have no problem cutting up sweatshirts to frankensew into new things. I'm just more cautious with new fabric (just realizing as I write this that there's another pullover I made this week that is so awful I didn't bother to take photos)

So I tried the Winnie in a sweatshirt terry 

not the real color

Not a twin needle but went around twice, as once just looked sad.

tacking down the collar on the side seams per the minimal instructions

It's okay. But now I know what I want to do with the Miyake knit. Three, four shirts later.