The Sorbetto - perfect for Refashioners

I doubt anyone blogging and sewing will have missed the Sorbetto by now. I've made three so far and they featured pretty heavily in my Me Made June. I am currently under a temporary self imposed Sorbetto ban otherwise I'd end up sewing nothing else! As one of the commenters on my blog put it "It's not a pattern, it's a virus!" It most certainly is addictive, not least because of it's versatility, it's simplicity and the fact that it uses very little fabric. All of which makes it perfect to squeeze out of existing garments and therefore perfect for refashioners. I made one of my sorbettos from a skirt I thrifted...

I cut off the waistband, pressed it thoroughly to remove all the gathers and laid it out smooth and flat so that the seams all lined up. Then traced around my sorbetto pattern. I didn't even need to hem it as I ended up using the existing hem of the skirt.I lined up the CF and CB seams of the pattern with the seams of the skirt in order to squeeze the sorbetto out of what was essentially a 4 gore skirt. It made no difference on the CF since that was an inverted pleat anyway and a seam down the CB didn't look out of place as made from scratch garments are often constructed with a non functional CB seam anyway.

Just some of the reasons I love this pattern...;)
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