Butterick 5891 - kAtheRine Tilton

This top started in October of last year in this blog post.  As the weather has gotten warm, the top began mocking me as it sat draped on the dress form, Saphroni.  It was time to do something.  A sleeveless linen

top sounded pretty good right about now.

I may be repeating myself from previous posts.  If so, forgive me.  This top began life as two linen dresses brought home from the thrift store.  As I recall, the yellow one still had tags on it.  Both dresses were too small as dresses so a refashion as a dress of some sort was not to be.  So, I decided to play with the Tilton pattern.  

I cut the dresses apart at the side seams, cut the sleeves off at the shoulder seams, and used the ripper to take off the pockets on the yellow one.  The blue had princess seams so I just laid the pattern pieces on the sections as if it was one piece paying no attention to the seams already sewn.

As I'm taking photos today, I remembered I had intended to embellish with tulip paint.  You will see a sample of what I had in my mind at the time in the post linked to above.

Hmm.

I can't find the paints.  My latest sewing room clean up came to mind.  Where did I put them?  I'm sure it seemed so logical at the time.  It's obviously not logical now.  So..........in the meantime, I plan to wear the top "as is."  When the paint turns up, we'll see what happens.

The buttons are from the stash.  This was a bag that I picked up for $2.00 as I recall, and there were about 200 buttons (all this same button) in the bag.  I wanted to give them a bit of color, so I took a turquoise sharpie and colored the centers.  Then, I sewed them with the blue thread.  

As you can see, I made use of the pockets (top back and side front) from the yellow dress.

The vegetable garden is now planted.  That has been taking up most of my time recently.