Hello again! I’ve been looking forward to sharing this project with you. I use to have commercial turtleneck tops in my wardrobe but I don’t anymore. I loved the idea of coming back to this style with a handmade garment. The pattern that I picked for this project is the Rise & Fall Turtlenecks pattern by Papercut Patterns.

For the fabric, I selected a grey and black striped viscose/elastane knit. The commercial turtleneck (that I mentioned above) was made with this same printed fabric. I thought this detail would be fun to literally recreate the commercial top. I find I’m constantly drawn to stripes, however, the pattern matching (matching up the stripes during the cutting and sewing) takes extra time vs using a plain fabric.

For reference, I used the following machines for this project. The serger was used for most of the sewing and the standard sewing machine was used to for the hems. The serger made this a very quick sew (the sewing portion only took half an hour)!

Supplies
 Rise/Fall Turtleneck pattern by Papercut Patterns
 1.5m, Viscose Jersey Knit Fabric Grey
 0.5m ¼” wide clear elastic
 80/12 Ball Point sewing needles
 Matching thread
 Pattern tracing paper
 Iron / Glass head sewing pins

Muslin/toile:
Fall Turtleneck - Size - XS

I normally grade across sizes for the bust/waist/hips but the Fall turtleneck has 5” ease built into the XS (comparing the body measurements and final garment measurements). As I noted the ease built into the bust, I assumed there would be enough ease in the waist/hips without grading the pattern to the next size. This assumption was correct.

Continued in my next post…

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