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Cropped Wrap Top: Vogue V9315

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It's February.  My favourite month.  Partly because I was born in this month and therefore I try to make it as special as possible.  But also because it's Ballet Season.  And I love the Ballet.  In particular I love contemporary Ballet and I've got tickets to see Matthew Bourne's latest production; 'The Red Shoes'. I'm so excited and to commemorate the first ballet of 2020, I have decided to make a quintessential Ballet garment; the Wrap Top.  And its going to be in Scarlet Red. I used Vogue Pattern V9315 and went with View C.  It's a cropped wrap with epic sleeves that have a lot of drama.  Perfect for the ballet. The pattern calls for woven fabric, but I wanted something that had a little bit stretch to get a closer and more comfortable fit of the wrapping part of the top.  So I used a red knit fabric; Ponte Jersey. To account for the stretchier fabric, I did go down a size, but other than that I made no changes to the basic construction of...