Butterick 6045
I’ve put the blue blouse together and it is hideous, it doesn’t look too bad on the Dress Form though it still doesn’t look much like the picture on the packet.
I really have to stay away from patterns that have extra fabric at the neck/bust line, I just don’t have the bustage for them.
Not only does this Blouse have the gathers at the neck line which means that the small collar doesn’t lay flat and there is a lot of fabric over the bust, it has open darts/pleats at the waist line which makes it very puffy, creating an excess of fabric under the bust.
There is a lot of fabric in the sleeves but I can live with them, and in fact they are probably the best thing about the Blouse.
In short it makes me look very blob like. To top it all I’m not sure that I like the colour very much.
I’m hoping that if I close the darts and change the neck line that it will be wearable, so watch this space, I have enough fabric so I could recut the front or the back but not both.
future projects
To get me in the mood for winter I have decided to make some skirts, but of course to go with the skirts I need to make some more blouses, so I have cut some out.
I thought I would use this fabric
I just couldn’t resist this pattern with this fabric 🙂
there was just enough fabric to do this top, the only problem was that I have do the collar pieces in two bits.
I have two skirts cut out:-
this fabric is going to be nice and warm.
I love this skirt pattern it is easy to make and versatile, this will be the third one of these skirts I made.
this fabric has a slight stretch to it so I’m not sure how it will sit.
Kittens three months on
The kittens are getting quite big now
all three of them about 4 weeks ago.
Fluffy playing with Missy, Fluffy is definitely getting accustomed to the kittens he has stopped running away from them and is now spending more time with us.
Rogue and Missy having a little cuddle.
Logan looking a bit miffed.
blouse Style 349
I have cut out this blouse version B, I’m even going to go with the long sleeves, I figure if I don’t like them I can cut them down to short sleeves.
In this fabric
I have read the instructions several times, and am still not entirely sure what I’m supposed to do with the pleats but after pinning the pleats in place and checking the drawing on the front I think I have it.
I’m not sure about this shirt, I if you look closely at this picture you can see next to each pleat you can see the stitching.
I have a problem with this fabric a) it is practically see through b) it has what I can only describe as a ladder right up the middle of it.
I’m going to have to finish it just to see how the sleeves look but I don’t think that I’ll ever wear it outside.
New Blouse Patterns
Recently I decided I need some more blouses to go with my skirts, so I have bought a couple more new patterns
Butterick 6045
I’ve already tried this one out and I’m not impressed
Butterick 6223
Style 349
I do like Pintucks but I’m not sure about the tiny pointy collar on A, but the ‘Rosebud Transfer’ is still in the packet
and Vogue 8329
so watch this space for more sewing
Craftsy Pattern Making Basics :the bodice Sloper
The last couple of dresses I have made have hung rather badly on my top half, and I’m fed up with it. It seems that, if there are clever drapey pleaty things going on I don’t have enough boobige to fill them out, which means that skirt lovely, top like a sack. one of the patterns is this
if anyone was wondering what happened to it I finished it, it didn’t fit I threw it in a corner. I have actually made it fit, sort of by taking an inch out of each side. that was just guess work and I’m not sure how much damage that has done to the arm sync.
Lets get back on track, I thought I’d sign up for a pattern making class, at least I’d have an idea where I was going wrong, I tried doing a small bust adjustment I think I went wrong some where as the pattern was practically the same size as when I started off.
so far I have taken the measurements and done more math than I have probably done since school
now I am half way through the transferring the measurements to paper, the hiding fairy has hidden my 2in by 18in ruler that I bought especially for the job, but while she was doing that she obviously took her eye off the ball and everything else turned up. 🙂
day out in london
I’ve had this week booked off since the beginning of the year and even though Simons wrist operation had put a stop to our original plans (New York) for this week I decided that I would leave Simon to fend for himself and go to Lond on for the day with my Mum.
The first thought I would go to Petticoat Lane, I read up on it I knew that really I needed to up on a Sunday but the day I wanted to go was Tuesday there should be a smaller market on Wentworth Street.
we got into Fenchurch Street about 11 o’clock and using the maps app on my phone managed to find Wentworth Street we couldn’t find the market, but the other things I wanted to do was visit some fabric shops and some vintage dress shops.
I bought some fabric in Epra Fabrics
and a Dress in absolute Vintage.
as you can maybe see the dress is totally see through, I’ve already bought some brown lining fabric for it.
then we decided to go and look at St. Pauls cathedral, as it was £16 to get in we just looked around the outside.
an arty shot from right next to the Cathedral, we also saw a few of these benches around London we spotted two at St Pauls and one at the Tower
Back to Tower Hill and we went and saw the poppies commemorating the First World War they look amazing.
All in all it was a good day out and we enjoyed our selves.
Mess
Have you ever looked at a room and thought ‘I must tidy this up’ but then not know where to start? that is my craft room, I can’t find anything in it and it has too much STUFF in it, it doesn’t matter how I rearrange it there is still too much STUFF in it.
I want to make another blouse
I bought some very pretty cotton pique from ebay
but do you think that I can find my pattern, nope, all the other patterns are accounted for in the box where they should be but not the one that I want, I’m sure that my subconscious does it deliberately, I bet it knows where my pattern is and it’s laughing at me, while it’s whispering ‘you need more shirts make one of these (even though I know you don’t know where the pattern is)’, I have been through the box twice I have had everything out of it and it isn’t there. the other think that I can’t find is the copy I made of the Gabriola skirt pattern, I have the actual skirt pattern just not the copy, but I resent having to make another copy of it when I’ve already done that.
I hate that I can’t find anything and I hate that it depresses me and stops me from doing the things I want to do. I also know that it is my own fault and I should a) stop buying things b) use what I already have and c)get rid of the stuff that I’m never going to use.
all I can say is thank god for eBooks, it doesn’t matter how many I buy they don’t take up any more room.
If you have got this far, thanks for staying with my ramble and hopefully sewing will be resuming soon
on a roll
I’m on a roll this weekend, after having the surgery on my shoulder and sorting the house out to be painted, I’ve been finding it difficult to get back into my dress making, but this weekend:-
I have finished a 70s dress apart from the hem, and managed to do some more on two other dresses.
here is the 70s dress
here is a close up of the collar, I bought the fabric at Kayes Textiles during the week, it is a £2.50 poly/cotton, it is a bit stiff but it gives the dress some body, hopefully if it is sunny during the week I’ll take some photos of me wearing it.
I also finished the bound button holes on this dress and restitched the bodice to the skirt
This dress I put the collar on the dress ironed on the interfacing and attached the cuffs to the sleeves
Saturday Morning
The Saturday morning in question was two weeks ago, but like everything else I’ve been having trouble settling to anything.
I spent the morning in Leigh on Sea with my Mum, there won’t be pictures of her, she doesn’t like them.
I got up really early (well for me anyway) and went to the Butchers in Hamlet court road, Simon and I do this practically every Saturday, but normally a lot later 🙂
Simon had had an operation on his wrist, I was expecting him to sleep most of the day, so I thought I’ll go to the Bakers and the Butchers to save him going out later.
So off to Leigh at about 10.00, we were lucky and managed to get in the carpark in North Road. and then made our way round a lot of charity shops and boutiques. in the first Charity shop I found a dress it is a beautiful dress Per Una, the Marks and Spencers Brand.
The next shop was a Sue Ryder shop in which I found two 1970s Maudella patterns for £1 each, there were more but these were the ones in my size
and
Mum got a set of coasters that were identical to a set she already had at home, except the ones she had at home had seen better days, a lot better days.
they were having a Barbeque/fate at the library, so we stopped to have lunch (a burger) and a cup cake
the back of the library.
this is the best of four selfies, note to self practise more selfies.
There should be more photos but I still haven’t got into the habit of taking photos wherever I go.
Musings of a Craft Enthusiast 