Mixed up Tova

 

I needed a little break from all the quilting I've been doing so today I decided to try out the Tova shirt pattern.

Just for a bit of fun I decided to use left over bits of voile from my stash, and kind of hodge-podged them together until I had large enough pieces to cut out the Tova pattern pieces. I did this because I didnt want to waste money on fabric in case the shirt didnt turn out nicely, and it meant I stash busted about 2 yards of fabric that was otherwise of pretty useless size.   And you know what?! I LOVE the way this scrappy mixed-up Tova turned out!  

All of the voiles came from Spotlight about 18? months ago. I made a skirt tiered skirt with them, but cant seem to find where I blogged it.

 

The white fabric that I used for the front insert was an offcut I found in the bargain bin at Ikea! Its a current fabric and I'd love to see a Tova (or any collared shirt pattern) made completely from this fabric.

 

I love the way the white fabric with writing on it just pops out from the vintagey voiles. As you can see I left off the sleeves. I had planned to add them, and even pieced fabric and cut out the pattern pieces. But when I tried on the shirt for fit halfway through sewing it I thought it looked just dandy without the sleeves. I have bound the armholes with some bias binding.

 

The other alterations I have made were to cut about 2" off the bottom of the tunic length, because I am a shorty and I didnt have enough fabric. I also stretched about 4" of elastic accross the seam at midback, just to cinch it in a little through the back.

 

This pattern runs very small. I am usally around a size 12 up top and 14 down the bottom and I had to cut an XL (largest size) and then add some ease at the hips so it would fit.