Comments on: Colette Sorbetto: For the Times They Are a-Roastin’ http://sewinintherain.com/2013/06/25/colette-sorbetto-for-the-times-they-are-a-roastin/ ...buying fabric faster than I can sew since 2009... Sat, 02 May 2015 12:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sandra http://sewinintherain.com/2013/06/25/colette-sorbetto-for-the-times-they-are-a-roastin/#comment-2510 Sat, 02 May 2015 12:04:13 +0000 http://imsewinintherain.wordpress.com/?p=1985#comment-2510 This pattern seems to get an awful lot of credit which isn’t due to it. Everyone seems to lengthen it, move the dart and have to make alterations to it. Basically people use it as a block and have to do a lot of work on it. New designs are still called sorbetto even though they have greatly improved on it and with sleeves etc no longer resemble the original. I don’t like the pleat, and the top is too short and too big. If the smallest size is so roomy then that is even more work in reducing that down.

I spent a lot of time putting the thing together and the pieces didn’t all match up perfectly either – with a big gap on one of them. I wish I could just buy a woven tank pattern in the commercial patterns to save all this fuss but it is hard to find one that isn’t for knits. I am not willing to risk lots of money on a pattern that needs a lot of work from an independent as many of them seem to produce patterns with a lot of issues. Okay I know people can’t work straight from the big 4 companies either, but at least you are not paying over the odds for it. A free pattern that costs so much in time and frustration, is not such a gift in the end!

]]> By: Amanda http://sewinintherain.com/2013/06/25/colette-sorbetto-for-the-times-they-are-a-roastin/#comment-681 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 03:40:59 +0000 http://imsewinintherain.wordpress.com/?p=1985#comment-681 Oooo, I like the stripes with the bold bias tape print! Very nice. Yeah, the high bust dart and short length of the top were two things I had read about. Sometimes it’s hard to catch these things before sewing the pattern up though!

]]> By: Caroline Joynson http://sewinintherain.com/2013/06/25/colette-sorbetto-for-the-times-they-are-a-roastin/#comment-678 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:00:35 +0000 http://imsewinintherain.wordpress.com/?p=1985#comment-678 Hi, I am loving your cool Sorbetto. I wish I had read your post before making my Sorbetto – I def need to lower the bust darts in my next version. Here is mine:http://carolinejoynson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/black-and-white-stripy-sorbetto.html

]]> By: Amanda http://sewinintherain.com/2013/06/25/colette-sorbetto-for-the-times-they-are-a-roastin/#comment-622 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:03:18 +0000 http://imsewinintherain.wordpress.com/?p=1985#comment-622 Thank you mucho! :)

]]> By: Espe http://sewinintherain.com/2013/06/25/colette-sorbetto-for-the-times-they-are-a-roastin/#comment-613 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:31:53 +0000 http://imsewinintherain.wordpress.com/?p=1985#comment-613 Love it! Color suits you to a tee.

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