Embroidered Daisy Top
Back in May I started working on some embroidery projects and one of them was a Ruby yoke with daisies on a black lawn. I love the way the white flowers pop against the black background. I finished the embroidery earlier this summer, but it’s taken me most of the summer to sew the top together. For pattern pieces, I used the Garnet sleeves and body, with the Ruby yoke, and lined the yoke and constructed it using the Garnet instructions.
Here’s a peek at it from start to finish (note - if you’re reading this on Substack, you might have to go over to my blog to see all six of the WIP photos below):
First I traced the yokes onto black cotton lawn with chalk
Then I attached fusible interfacing to the back side of the fabric to stabilize it, and sketched out roughly where I wanted the daisy and leaf motifs to land (important: I drew in the seam allowance to make sure all of the embroidery would be well inside the seam lines)
I used a hoop and sashiko thread, perle cotton and DMC floss to embroider the daisies and leaves.
My progress after I stitched the first batch of daisies, before moving the hoop to a new location.
The finished embroidery on the yokes - looks pretty cool!
The assembled yoke with its lining, ready to be stitched into the final garment.
I finished hemming it and adding the elastic to the sleeves this weekend, and took these photos yesterday.
The patterns I used are my Ruby and Garnet patterns, which are sibling patterns, ie the pieces are interchangeable. I combined them here to produce a cropped top version with sleeves and a lined Ruby yoke, but there’s lots of other ways to combine them. Check out this post (5 Ways to Combine Ruby and Garnet) to see a few of the different ways you can combine these two patterns.
PS. Today is my birthday so I think I might wear this out for my birthday dinner tonight (woot woot — I’m 48!!!)