I saw a top I liked, but it's on one of those Chinese websites that will take weeks to arrive and then may or may not look like the pic.
The pattern hunt led me to Burda 6972, which is vaguely similar.
The cutting out was a bit 'orrible as it left lots of bits on my cutting board that had to be vacuumed up.
I then realised that I wanted princess seams on the upper bodice, so I ended up cutting a new upper front and back from a TnT pattern, and just cut two seams in the front, and a centre front seam.
The sleeves are also different, but I used the pattern and cut it off short, then I cut a wide piece that will be gathered and sewn on, I'm just not sure how wide to make it...
The embroidery took me ages to decide on a design, and then the colours, but I'm really pleased with it. It looked really wishy washy in the machine booklet, but changing the colours makes an amazing difference.
In the original garment, the waist seam is gathered, but I spent a bit of time pinning pleats as per the pattern, then pinning gathers, and then just gave up and gathered the whole front and it looks fine.
Today is deciding on the sleeve width, I've not made wide sleeves in hundreds of years! I also may re-cut new top halves for the sleeves, as I think they may be too close fitting, and not be the look I'm after.
The embroidery colours are much brighter than in the pic, it was taken in artificial light.
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