I remember that when I first saw this blouse in the magazine I thought no way, this was going to be to complicated, I want simple. But then I saw the makes of others and everybody said that it was not difficult at all. So I gave it a try.
I made Burda pattern: from Burda 7/2016, model 114, size 38.
I had only 1 meter of this striped fabric. According to Burda I would need 1.50 m. I always do this and it works out OK because I carefully consider how to place all the pieces. The material is poplin. It cost me 9.90 EUR (for 1 m) in Svet metraže (Slovenia).
I used this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbzPO3qAYM (from Saturday Night Stitch) for more information.
The changes
I made: - size 38 (instead of 40)
- I shortened
the length of the blouse (because of the material shortage)
- I shortened
the sleeves a bit
- I made a bias binding out of scraps
- I used only 1 cm of seam allowance
I must say that everything is easy to make, the most difficult part for me was making
buttonholes. I have a huge fear – nightmares – when I have to make buttonholes.
I actually avoid making them. I use snap buttons or nothing. That's probably
because I started sewing on my mum's old sewing machine (Yugoslavian danica bagat) when I was a student and it made horrible buttonholes. The machine was
not bad at all but making buttonholes was a nightmare. This continued with my
next sewing machine – it was bernina bernette 75 – but still ... half of the
buttonhole was fine, the other half was horrible.
BUT !!! Now I have elna excellence 680 and it's great. (I'm not sponsored by anybody.) It's not bad. It's actually quite good. Buttonholes are scary because it's not easy to go back to undo them, you have to do them right the first time you do it, otherwise you just give yourself a headache.
buttonholes
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| a mess - but I was able to correct it |
My husband
commented that it looks like a McDonald's uniform ?!? Why? I checked it on
Google, they don't have this kind of uniforms. I guess that stripes can look
like a part of a uniform. So you have to style it right.
I plan to
sell this blouse on my facebook page (which I still have to create, my non-existent
page 😊) for 45 EUR. I quit my job 1.5
years ago and I started my small business (I'm self-employed). Most of the time
I teach English (I work for a language school and I do private tutoring) which
is fine but I really want to devote more time to my favourite hobby: sewing (my)
clothes and then selling them. It is really difficult to start because I don't
know what to sew for others but I have come to a conclusion that I will sew
things according to my taste (and my stash, of course) because everything else
is just overwhelming. I can't follow the trends because I don't even like them.
I have my own style and taste. I don't know if anybody is going to buy anything
from me BUT I don't really care. I can keep the clothes for myself or give them
to my friends and relatives. I just enjoy the sewing process and that's enough
for me.
Let the pictures talk.
