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As part of my Fall\/Winter sewing plans<\/a>, I wanted to make a layer that wasn’t a standard button up cardigan. I have the Seamwork Elmira ballet wrap top pattern<\/a> and decided to give it a try. The Elmira is a cropped, fitted ballet wrap with 3\/4 sleeves and long ties. Two examples that got me interested in trying the pattern are Meg at Cookin’ & Craftin’<\/a> and Sewrendipity’s on instagram<\/a>. You can see lots more examples on Instagram here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I haven’t had much luck with Seamwork patterns in the past. Both woven pieces I attempted required a lot of fitting changes and I gave up on them. But this is a knit, so I thought it might be more forgiving. Most blog posts I read about the pattern didn’t mention fit issues, but before I cut into my expensive wool jersey, I tried out the pattern with some left-over ITY in my stash.<\/p>\n I made a few changes before I cut my fabric: Once I had the pieces cut out, I used some lightweight fusible interfacing on the shoulders and neckline so they wouldn’t stretch out.<\/p>\n The instructions were good and the construction straight-forward. I did most of the sewing on my serger.<\/p>\n Here’s the picture Seamwork uses to show off the Elmira. Mine looks very similar (except for the long ties), but if I was to make this again, I would go up a size, to to get more front coverage, like Meg does here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking at all the Instagram examples<\/a>, I think the wrap looks best over a dress. I’ve tried it with my turtleneck tucked and out, and I prefer the shirt out. <\/p>\n I’m glad I made this up in the ITY before committing to my plan of making it in my merino jersey. I’d rather have something a bit longer. Here are 2 other patterns I’m considering: the Cashmerette Appletop wrap top hack<\/a> (below left) or the Trish Newbery wrap cardigan<\/a> (below right).<\/p>\n As part of my Fall\/Winter sewing plans, I wanted to make a layer that wasn’t a standard button up cardigan. I have the Seamwork Elmira ballet wrap top pattern and decided to give it a try. The Elmira is a cropped, fitted ballet wrap with 3\/4 sleeves and long ties. Two examples that got me … Continue reading “Seamwork Elmira Wrap Sweater”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1) Lengthened it 2″ as it seemed awfully short
\n2) Lengthened the sleeves 2″
\n3) Shortened the ties.
\n4) The front of the wrap is 2 layers but the back is only one. The back neckline is just folded and stitched. Lots of other bloggers complained about this, so I made the back 2 layers as well.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/seamwork-elmira.jpg\")
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\nSeamwork Elmira wrap top, True Bias Nikko turtleneck, self-drafted pants<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/dino.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/two-choices-wrap-top.jpg\")
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