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A grey & neon Lestat Rest Vest

Apologies for the lack of updates over here recently – I’ve actually been doing lots of sewing and living, but not much blogging! Part of that is because I’ve sewn a few things that are incompatible with the super hot & dry summer we’ve been having in London and I don’t really fancy doing photoshoots of trousers and long sleeved shirts!

But I thought I’d share a quick little project I made a few weeks ago… We had tickets with some friends to see an outdoor Super Furry Animals & Beta Band concert up at Ally Pally in north London, and I wanted to wear something sleeveless for the heat. The concert itself was fabulous – The Beta Band literally played my dream setlist (only songs from The Three EPs plus “Squares”) and SFA played all their greatest hits, and there was tons of shade and space to sit and a truly extravagent array of food trucks!

But back to the top I sewed for it…

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A citron yellow Rest Vest

Thank you all for your comments and sympathy regarding the death of my father and my tribute vest. I’ve been sewing a LOT over the past few weeks while he’d been dying, but for obvious reasons I hadn’t felt like writing blog posts or taking photos, so I’ve got a bunch of garments to show you, completely out of order and with some photos taken recently and some from weeks ago (just don’t look at the length of my hair too closely!).

The first I wanted to show you is the Rest Vest from MadeIt patterns – a new-to-me pattern company that is also based in London! This is the pattern I used for my tribute vest, but this version today is the one I made first.

I saw the back view of this vest (British English for “tank top”, Americans!) in my Instagram feed and basically clicked buy then and there. It was still under its launch discount, too, which was just a bonus, but I love that the top wraps around at the back to create that upper back interest and the back wraps around at the body to shift the side seams forward. It feels like a design I’d draft myself, which is high praise indeed!

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A teeshirt for my Dad and a tribute from/for me

At the end of January my Dad became suddenly critically ill with a list of serious problems as long as my arm. While I anxiously waited for my last-minute transatlantic flight to leave to go over and visit, I needed something to keep my hands busy, so I decided to make him a teeshirt.

I had recently bought some cotton jersey from Girl Charlee UK (who’ve since closed down) in his favourite shade of “Penn State blue” and I used this in conjunction with the Men’s teeshirt from the Great British Sewing Bee Fashion with Fabric book, size Medium. (Coincidentally, I actually made the “perfect” modelled in the book!)