Ice and Cream Rib

We’ve chosen some matching ribs for our jacquard cottons, with the new Sidney Sweatshirt in mind.

For sizes 6 – 14 you will need 3 strips, for sizes 16 – 28 you will need 4 strips. If you decide to leave ribbing off of the bottom the sweatshirt you will only need 2 strips for all sizes.

Please note these are only our suggestions – you can order samples of any of our fabrics and ribs by clicking into the ‘buy’ tab when you’re in the product and select ‘add sample to cart’. We hope you find these matches helpful!

You can find our Sidney sweatshirt PDF here.

Shadow Jacquard Cotton | Dusty Dip | Chunky Ecru | Sky Dip

Rushes Jacquard Cotton | Mimosa | Tropics | Zadie | Pilot | Sky Dip | Raspberry Dip | Chunky Ecru

Rasai Jacquard Cotton | French Noir | Tropics | Gin Gin

Quink Jacquard Cotton | Jansson | Tonje | Tan Dip | Clementine Dip | True Navy | Chunky Navy | Oz Dip

Lunar Jacquard Cotton | Chunky Black | Black Rib | French Noir

Laine Jacquard Cotton | Big Yellow Taxi | Tropics | Gin Gin

Harvest Pink Jacquard Cotton | Ice and Cream | Chocolate Fern | Mimosa

Arlo Jacquard Cotton | Grey Marl | Zadie | Tonje

Ahoy Jacquard Cotton | Sky Dip | Jansson | Chunky Ecru

Dauphine Jacquard Cotton | Chunky Ecru | Denim Marl | Milk

The planning stage of sewing can be just as fun as the actual making. I’ve often overwhelmed myself with all the possibilities of colours and fabrics! The Parka has a few elements to it, the outer fabric, lining fabric (if making the lined version), drawstring cord, ribbing for the neckline, and buttons. You can also add some extra hardware options like cord stops and cord locks.

It can be tricky ordering fabric online, especially trying to match your fabric to the rib. We’ve given you 10 options below to make things a bit easier. If we’ve not covered one of the fabrics you are thinking of using you can always email us for help with matching it up to the rib. Our Barrier Lining in Tan and Black is ideal for the Parka as it has a water repellent finish, giving you extra protection from the elements.

Blackwatch Dry Oilskin | Barrier Lining Black | Sweeps Scrim Rib | Drawstring Webbing Black | Navy Corozo Buttons

Oxblood Dry Oilskin | Tan Barrier Lining | Oxblood Rib | Drawstring Webbing Black | Simple 20mm Buttons

Beige Dry Oilskin | Barrier Lining Black | Scuttle Black Rib | Drawstring Webbing Black | Grey Corozo Buttons

Grey Dry Oilskin | Black Barrier Lining | Ice & Cream Rib | Off White Drawstring Webbing | Grey Corozo Buttons 

Prince of Wales Check Dry Oilskin | Black Barrier Lining |  Sweeps Scrim Rib | Drawstring Webbing Black | Grey Corozo Buttons 

Cumin Dry Oilskin | Barrier Lining Tan | Big Yellow Taxi Rib | Drawstring Webbing Brown | Gold Corozo Buttons 

Bracken Dry Oilskin | Tan Barrier Lining | Chocolate Fern Rib | Drawstring Webbing Brown | Simple 20mm Buttons

Midnight Trench Dry Oilskin | Tan Barrier Lining | Big Yellow Taxi | Drawstring Webbing Brown | Gold Corozo Buttons

Navy Oilskin | Black Barrier Lining | Tonje Rib | Drawstring Webbing Black | Navy Corozo Buttons

French Navy Trench Dry Oilskin | Black Barrier Lining | Jansson Rib | Drawstring webbing Black | Navy Corozo Buttons

Trying to colour match ribbing to your main fabric can be tricky. We have done a spot of personal shopping for you and matched all our striped ribs to our current collection of cloth. We find most people use these ribs for the Fielder and the Tee Shirt patterns, so we have included fabrics that work for these. However, we are releasing a parka coat pattern this Autumn which has a ribbed collar and would work perfectly with oilskins so we have included these where appropriate. We hope this is a helpful resource for you!

We had a lot of fun designing these striped ribs, mixing up colour combinations and trying to find the right balance. The idea was to create some ribbing that would compliment our cloth collection and would work well the Fielder dress or top pattern. We already have some ribbing dyed to match our popular linen colours but it’s harder to find well coloured stripey ribbing. You could also use them on our Men’s Tee Shirt pattern as well as other items like sweatshirts or bomber jackets.

Please note these ribs are sold by the piece and not by the metre. They are all roughly 105cm’s long, 5.5cm’s wide, £7.75 per piece and made in France. View all of the colour combinations here. 

Our Fielder Tops from left to right:

Oxblood linen with Ice and Cream rib and plain Oxbood rib for the cuffs and bottom band.

Barre linen with Chocolate Fern rib.

Woolsey Goodnight with Jansson rib. We took off the bottom band and lengthened the top here.

How to use our ribs:

These ribs will stretch by half again, just like our plain ribbing, so you will be able to use the pattern pieces in the Fielder/Tee pattern. You can see from our samples that we have used different seam allowances to attach the ribbing, this is a personal preference depending how much of the ribbing you want to see. The ribs can be attached with an overlocker or use a small zig zag stitch on a normal domestic machine.

For the Men’s Tee Shirt pattern you will just need one strip for all sizes. You can actually get two necklines out of one strip.

For the Fielder Dress you will need one strip for sizes 12 and under and two strips for sizes 14, 16 and 18.

For the Fielder Top, you will need two strips for sizes 10 and under and three strips for sizes 12, 14, 16 and 18. You could always use plain rib on the bottom which would be more cost effective.

If you like a fabric but are not sure which rib will match it you can order samples or just email us, we are happy to suggest combinations.