Sorbetto with Frills

As I mentioned in Minoru- Part 3, I have traced off the Colette freebie, Sorbetto. Inspired by my new book, Modern Sewing,  I wanted to make it with the frilled neckline.

Last night, I cut it out, put it together and bound the neckline. When I got up the morning, I bound the arms and hem instead of folding it over – I had cut enough binding, so why not? It adds some weight to the hem. I cut 1 inch strips of bias with my rotary cutter and patchwork ruler for the bindings.

 

To make the neckline frill, I cut strips 1.5″ and 2″ wide.

I stitched the strips together. Just one on top of the other. I overlapped the ends of the bias strips and just kept sewing to join them. They are bias and won’t fray.

I broke out my ruffler food that I bought with my Bernina and used it to gather the strips. A tuck every 6 stitches on stitch length 2.5mm.

The ruffler is quite the contraption!

Oooh pretty!!!

I ended up with a lovely long strip…

Here is my finished Sorbetto. I inverted the front pleat and left it open after about 10cm as I wanted a loose flowy cool top for summer.

I pinned, making sure the stitching line of the ruffle was on the stitching line of the binding. Yes, I left the raw edge of the binding on the inside. This top is a) experimental and b) the binding won’t fray anyway, so why fuss turning it under…

When I got to the end, I unpicked a ruffle or two, and folded the left side back underneath, overlapping them.

You can’t really see it, especially after trimming that triangle end back.

I stitched it on with a 25.mm x 2.5mm zig zag.

And here’s my ugly mug in a pretty top.

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