Good Tiemes Tee

I had seen it pop up on Instagram and I had to try it, the Good Tiemes Tee from Forest & Thread. I’m wearing it here with my Ecovero Whitlam Skirt!

I nabbed this khaki marle viscose knit from Backstreet Bargains and it’s not really stretchy enough for any of our M&B knit top patterns, but the colour was a real winner so I decided to use it to test out this pattern. I tried to buy more as soon as I mostly finished this top, but there’s only 1m left and I even called them to see if there was more in store than was listed online (but there wasn’t).

One thing I’ll flag is that while I have tucked the front of the top in here, it’s quite short through the front (much more so than the back would suggest). It’s not really an issue in this very high-waisted skirt, but I can see getting some upper belly out if I reached for something in my non-ultra-high-waist pants.

I used a 3X at the top and through the sleeve, grading out to a 5X at the very high hip. The size of the neckband wasn’t an issue for my small noggin, even though the fabric wasn’t very stretchy, but it maybe would be a problem if I was more precious about my hair than I am right at the moment.

My narrow shoulders have struck again though, and if I was to make this again I think I’d reprint the pattern going down quite a few sizes- you can see on the sample photos that the curve of the yoke of the tee should wrap around the shoulder acromion, whereas on my tee I’ve got this empty space where my shoulder should be, but my shoulder was ages ago.

I think also there’s something slightly funky about the neckline on me- which is a shame because I LOVE the look of the high neck- I think it could be that my upper shoulder and maybe my upper back/low neck has more flesh than the pattern expects and it’s lifting the top up slightly so that it has room for me.

In conclusion

Having said all of this- I’ve already worn the top out twice in the evenings when I wanted to look extra nice- once with this skirt and another time with my newish pink Willandra Pants (a bold but excellent colour combo that deserves to be photographed!).