Favorite Greenstyle Top Sewing Pattern + a Giveaway!

It is Favorite’s Week at Greenstyle Creations for the admin and staff, and I am excited to join in! Today’s post will have a giveaway so stay tuned until the end so you can enter to win! If you want to skip around, this is what today’s post will contain: (1) my favorite pattern and SALE, (2) the Brassie joggers I made to go with it, (3) the Giveaway, and (4) Random Life.

And the Winner Is…

Decisions, decisions, decisions… I have had the privilege of adminning for Greenstyle for about a year and a half now and have been sewing Greenstyle patterns since I was first introduced to the online world of PDF sewing patterns a little over four years ago! This means I have scores of Greenstyle clothes in my closet, and it also means that it was pretty stinking hard to decide which pattern is my favorite!!

Without much more preamble… let’s get down to it: For (today’s) favorite, I chose the Studio to Street top!!

The Pattern Details

The Studio to Street is a dolman style top that has multiple neckline options (front crew or V neck and back crew or V neck) as well as multiple hem options (crop, mid, sloped hem, or a split hem). It has lots of ease in the body with fitted sleeves.

I made the V neck on this one and love how crisp it turned out!

I cut the hemline at the straight line that is indicated on the pattern for the split hem band, but I did not use the hem band. This makes a more modest crop for me than the cropped view in the pattern.

I used a super soft and stretchy mauve brushed sweater knit that I bought from Knitpop*. When I make this pattern with fabric that has less stretch (like French terry), I size the sleeves up so that they aren’t too tight. Fabric like rayon spandex and sweater knits, though, are perfect, and I make my measured size.

The Studio to Street* pattern is ON SALE today only for 40% off!!

I need to make several more of these tops, so I am planning on doing a sew along for it! I think it is such a closet staple and is also a pretty quick sew!

Those Brassie Joggers, Though

If you have followed my blog for long, you may know that my favorite pattern has ALWAYS been the Brassie joggers*. It was my first Greenstyle pattern and is probably the comfiest thing that I own. Even though I did not pick them as my favorite this year, I still made a pair to go with my Studio to Street top for this post. When I was going back and forth in my head as to which pattern I picked, I landed on the Studio to Street because the Brassies can’t be my only favorite and the only thing that I talk about on my blog, and in any event, I can’t wear them topless 🙂 so I decided to pick my favorite TOP pattern for today’s post.

I used this flight supplex in deep violet for these joggers, and chose the midrise option on the pattern. If you want more details on sewing the Brassies, I have a full sew along for them HERE.

Giveaway

To make favorites week even more fun, I am giving away one Greenstyle pattern for FREE! To enter, just leave me a comment on this blogpost telling me something, anything that is your FAVORITE. It can be your favorite style, your favorite food, your favorite pattern, your favorite source of sewing inspiration, your favorite TV show, your favorite book, your favorite color… well, anything you consider your favorite! I will leave the giveaway open until 8 am CST on January 23rd and then will pick a winner at random from those who comment.  For extra entries, you can comment on my Facebook post in Greenstyle’s Facebook group.

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Random Life

I got braces!! I turn 38 next month so I feel a little old for this, but I am so glad to be on the path to straighter teeth. I really underestimated how painful the first few days would be! I am working on my confidence with smiling and talking in them. I have figured out that eating is not so bad if I cut everything really small and keep my teeth clean.

The initial plan was for me to do Invisalign, but after analyzing the images of my jawline and teeth, the orthodontist says he needs to adjust my bite, which he can only do with braces. Ugh. So, here we are 🙂

Did any of my readers having braces as an adult?

I am still enjoying audiobooks so much. I asked my Instagram friends who else likes to listen to audiobooks and was excited to see I am totally not alone! This week I have been listening to Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, which is about World War I. I have found it harder to get into than the last book I enjoyed by him – Pillar of Fire. I am only about 1/3 of the way in to this one, though, and I am sure I will finish it.

Last week I finished my first Jodi Picoult book, Mercy. It was OK. (Spoiler alert) I really didn’t like the affair the main character had in the book and just was bored by it and found it so unnecessary and frustrating how he treated his wife, and she just put up with it. She did sell all his belongings in a garage sale when she found out so that was a very short highlight to the book. He still continued to lie to her and just stayed with her because his mistress left him. There is much more exciting fiction out there IMO.

I think I need a good legal thriller next because the only part of Mercy  that kept me listening was the murder trial.

*Disclosures

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XO