Tonight I finished my BWOF blouse. I only had the buttons left to sew on and the buttonholes to cut open, which I did using my new fave toy, a buttonhole chisel, and I have to wonder how I ever managed without this. It was a gift from RuthieK for my birthday and its brilliant.
I then decided that I would be super brave and sew on my blouse buttons using the button sewing foot on the machine. I had a bad experience with this foot (actually on my mum's machine) when I broke a vintage button trying to sew it on so I've been a bit wary to say the least and this is the first time I've dared to do it since that disaster. Well, my darling machine sewed ten buttons in fifteen minutes, didn't break a one and was very well behaved. So I might let her do it again sometime.
Anyway, here is the blouse. Again, I am putting the photos up first, and will finish the review, which is in draft form, either later tonight or tomorrow. This blouse needed minimal alterations to make it fit. Its not too fitted, I am trying to get away from overfitting things, and hopefully I haven't gone too far the other way. I do love the print, though its pretty big, much bigger than I would ever normally wear. I had to do a single layer layout so I could avoid a pattern match across the centre front, headlight effects, or flowers in the darts. I am quite pleased with the placement, though I realise the matches are not all that good at some of the seams.
I still don't trust this to be correctly fitted you know. I can see it looks OK on Twiggy, and she is cast from me, and it looked OK on me too. But I keep expecting some wrinkle or problem to rear up and bite me. Its not possible that it fits and I did so little to it. Especially given my past history with the pattern line and the rather unfair fact that I spent months fitting a McCalls pattern very similar to this one, and still didn't get it as comfortable as this one seems like its going to be (its got cold here this week, too cold to wear a blouse, even with a jacket, so it won't get a proper test run wearing until the cold snap eases).
5 comments:
Wow you had a very productive weekend. Do the polo's sit against your neck or are they a bit looser? Even though black is not my colour I really like the lace polo and your blouse is just wonderful.
I know what you mean about the buttonhole chisel, they are so useful.
Sharon, the polo's sit against my neck. I find if my neck is warm, especially the back of my neck, I am warmer and more comfortable overall.
Absolutely yummy with perfect flower placement. Cutting out single layer is such a pain, but so worth it in the end. You have been sewing your little heart out haven't you.
I could save a lot of time changing thread if I would sew one color at a time, very smart.
That is REALLY nice. Great flower placement. A lovely soft blouse.
It's been said already, but really wow that is some weekend output!
I love the print placement on the blouse - it looks very designer and you've avoided that awful half a flower on the CF (in addition to the symmetry and bullseyes!)!
I don't look good in black and I don't like pink, so it's totally not me, but I'm certain it will look fab on you.
Stop questioning your good fortune - the fitting pixies are trying to be nice to you after jacket no1!!!
Sadly I think my polonecks are going to come thanks to the special offer at Landsend.
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