Top Burda Style Embroidered - Progress

I know I said that after the embroidery, all I had to do was sewing.

Just sewing...? Not just yet.

As the fabric was all white and it had only that emboidery in the front, my mother suggested that I put a green bias tape to give it another look. So far, so good.

Her it is.

It has a tube form. I chose the green colour, to contrast with the white of the top.
I decided to put in the sleeves, neckline and hem.


It was very hardworking, as I had to pin it, while I was doing the hem. In the sleeves, which are rounded, was also very difficult.


It got like this:

After I placed the bias tape, I sewed the cord elastic where the pattern indicated and I basted the top and I tried it on.

Here it is on top of the table. It will look like this.

But.... I still have to fix it.

As this time I used sleeves, and the sleeves are shorter than the straps, when I tried the top, the elastic was through my breast and not under my breast line.

That is to say, the top gone up.

On the side I also have to enlarge it, as with this modification, the breast area got too tight.

I also found the sleeves too large for the model. They don't fall over the arms.

I'm trying to find a way to fix them, so that they get smaller.

But as they are already sewed in the neckline, and as I'm a bit lazy I don't want to undo them.

I thought of making small pleats to tight them up.

I'll post later photos of top after the fix.