Sunny Yellow Garnet Top

This yellow and white Garnet top has moved to the top of my pile as my favorite Garnet to wear, but I never gave it its own post, so here we go. Turns out this often happens often with the “cover” pattern samples that I make; since they end up being photographed for the pattern cover or the shop listings and are usually part of the “X pattern is HERE!” post, they don’t usually get a post of their own.

The yellow main fabric is so bright and cheerful, it feels like it’s exuding actual sunshine, which is part of why I love this top so much. It is a very lightweight, semi-sheer “pastry line” voile from Anna Maria Horner (possibly part of the Little Folks voile collection?). The yoke fabric is a Heather Ross double gauze print from the Far Far Away collection for Kokka circa 2009 (I had to look that up - can’t believe it’s been that long - big thanks to my friend Deborah, whose blog archives came through for me there), and it features tiny little flowers, lilypads and frogs. It doesn’t seem like a huge coincidence that these two fabrics ended up working so well together, considering Heather and Anna Maria are (were?) actual friends IRL. It’s extremely satisfying when two otherwise unrelated fabrics end up working together.

Just in case you’re curious, here are some of the other fabrics I was auditioning for this top:

Which one would you have picked??

PS. That fabric combo at the top right is currently on my sewing table — you can see a little peek at what I’m making with it here.

PPS. Garnet is available as a digital pattern in my shop, and is fully swap-able (is that a word?) with its sibling pattern, Ruby.