Thank you for your sweet comments on my last post- you are very kind and I'm excited by all the helpful suggestions! I think I'm going to busy this year. 🙂 I drew a name using the 'random generator' and up came #26, which was Brooke. Thanks again for taking part!
I sewed the last button onto my new blouse this morning and thought i'd show this latest finished project. A while ago I found an old Butterick pattern (#3696, from the early 80's, I think) with designs for short-sleeved blouses, which i thought would be a handy garment to go with skirts and cardigans this coming autumn. I chose the 'D' model, which has a rounded collar and to make it, I cut into my favourite-ever vintage fabric. I originally found it in my parents' barn (I have no idea how it got there?) and it was extremely dirty, but after washing and pressing it I felt like I'd found hidden treasure. It's a kind of drapey georgette crepe in dark blue with small red and yellow flowers. It proved tricky to work with (slipping all over the place) but I'm happy with the finished blouse- even if I did discover a couple of small moth-holes on one shoulder. When will I learn to hold fabric up to the light before cutting into it? Never mind, it's to be expected from fabric that lived in a barn for a long time.
Aother tricky thing about making the top was the buttonholes. Even though I have quite a modern sewing machine, I get a bit anxious when making tiny little buttonholes on such slippery fabric, so i ended up sewing them by hand. The buttons are red vintage ones- all similar but not quite the same, and I chose to sew them in pairs instead of the usual, equally-spaced distance.
I hope you have a great weekend ahead. We're off to Wellington for a friend's wedding (hooray!) so I'll see you on Monday.
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