Hello friends,
It has taken me about two months to finish this, however I am overwhelmed with joy that the blouse is finally completed!
The pattern is taken from Applied pattern designing, illustrated, page 71, it was definitely a new project for me as I’ve only ever done a dress, top and simple circle skirt so making the curved yoke and button holes was a very good learning process!
I’ve made a few mistakes along the way but it’s only experience to take to the next project!
I chose a nice little floral cotton fabric.
To start off I cut out all the pattern pieces, which already shows that I made a fun little mistake of cutting out the right side of the front bodice piece twice. And having only the amount of fabric I needed for this blouse I was lucky there was still enough left to cut out the left front bodice piece.
The entire blouse was stitched together by hand with a back-stitch along all the seams, the curved yoke was also attached using this method because I was afraid it would otherwise rip open. After the blouse was stitched together I went ahead and hemmed down all the rough edges, and mistakenly also one of the armholes! Which I put off with undoing until almost the end of the project, because who wants to undo their work?
When that was completed I decided it’s time to attach the interfacing to the blouse, I chose a nice bright red color that would really pop out so one of the colors has a very nice bright red color on it. I did this by simply pinning the interfacing to the right side of the front bodice and stitching it together on the edge facing the center with a hidden running stitch, and on the right side of the bodice I attached it with a very thin hem so it is not visible from the other side (If this will prove rigid enough I’m not sure, but it holds out until now!).
Once completed I tried to get the back pleat box to work without attaching it to the garment, but I had to stitch the pleated box with a very long running stitch to the backside of the garment, otherwise I had no idea how to not make it invert on me when I put on the garment.
The sleeves also come from Applied pattern designing, illustrated but from page 147 instead.
To finish it off I made the button holes and attached the button on the right side, which I learned from watching Bernadette’s video on YouTube. She explained wonderfully how to make button holes!
