Hello! Happy Halloween and welcome to another new make and sewing pattern review.
This time it’s Vogue 1835, a casual knitwear shirt and pants set featuring an asymmetrical shirt and basic drawstring joggers.
I loved this pattern the minute I saw it. It’s very much my everyday wardrobe style. I adored the zig zag Missoni-esque fabric used to make the model’s outfit on the pattern envelope. I was really sold on that look, even though I wondered if the fabric might be a bit scratchy in real life. I still think it made an awesome matching set!
Sizing and Pattern Alterations
I chose to make View B, the top with long sleeves. I cut an XXL to start with, just going by the size stats on the envelope. Being that it’s an oversize design, I was concerned that the XXL would be too large in some areas and correctly fitting in others. I was right about this, and ended up re-drawing the block to fit my sizing requirements. I traced the pattern onto tissue paper and went down 1 size to XL in the shoulders, neckline and arms. I kept it at XXL for the hips and graded the pattern from XL to XXL between the bottom arm and hips. This meant re-cutting the shirt down to my new size, including the sleeves, which also needed to be cut down to XL.
Design Modifications
Although I like the design with it’s off shoulder boat neck collar, it’s late in the season for that neckline. It’s too cold already to wear that style unless I wear a layer underneath, so I drafted a collar for the shirt to make it wearable during the winter.
If you’re interested in seeing the original collar to this shirt, click the link to Simplicity’s site at the beginning of this post.
Other mods I made to the design: did some gathered elastic in the sleeve cuffs and side bottom seams of the shirt.
Fabric
I used some stretch knit that I bought from Joann’s earlier this year. It’s a galactic space style print with fiery elements in it. It also has some interesting pops of bright green in places. The print is a stripe with about a 9″ repeat. I cut the sleeves in the opposite direction so as to have an entire vertical stripe down each arm. I was able to do that because the fabric is stretchy enough even through the warp. Not as stretchy as the weft, but good enough to cut the sleeves that way.
Trick or Treat?
I’d have to say that this pattern is a treat. Great for beginners, it offers quick sewing satisfaction with little effort, and who doesn’t love that once in a while? An easy to make casual knitwear shirt that looks good and is comfortable! Of course I did regrade the size range for my figure, and I did choose to draft a collar that didn’t exist in the original design, but that’s just me. I’ve been sewing forever and I do things like that! It’s still a good basic sportswear pattern that yields good results 🙂
I paired the shirt with some brick red leggings, black casual slip on shoes and pearl earrings. Here’s the finished look:
Shoes by Taos, leggings by Calia
Thanks so much for reading 🙂
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