The Great Vintage Shirt Project - Simplicity 2194
October's Shirt is Finished!
Between yesterday and today I finished up October's shirt. There wasn't anything out of the ordinary to do to finish up the shirt: add the sleeves, finish the side seam/sleeve seam in one long seam, add the cuffs, make buttonholes and attach buttons. It was very straight forward work and nothing that I hadn't done before (since this one is #10, I've done most of these steps at least a few times!).
I found some nice brown buttons to finish off the project, too:
I'm glad that this one is all done. I also made a couple more Burda turtles for my daughter this week, one black and one ivory. They're not exciting, but she needed them and I already had the ivory fabric. Next week I am working on FGTDD, and a new jacket muslin.
Parting Shot: In the Leaves. Well, sort of. This is as close as Wellie will get to playing in leaves. He's been declawed in the front, so outside is not an option for him. I had to take this fabric and make a tablecloth and he got in the middle of it before I could get the measuring and cutting done.
9 comments:
Beautiful blouse. Love the fabric (I'm crazy about anything brown). I find it interesting that on older patterns of "shirt" blouses the sleeve is always gathered into the cuff, and the cuff usually extends further than the opening, to lap under the the buttonhole. Newer patterns have pleats, like RTW, and the cuff ends right at the slit. Wonder why??? At some point in my life, I started putting in pleats to mimic RTW, because I didn't want to look "home made".
Pretty shirt! Is #11 happening in November? 12 December?
I love that fabric and blouse, and I normally don't wear brown.
Wellie needs his own label on the side bar. :)
Beautiful Blouse...love the Wellie photo too...I used the same fabric in a quilt I just finished for my daughter.
Lovely blouse! And Wellie is so cute :)
I really like your blouse! It reminds me just a little of one I made in high school. (Note: I mean no comparison in workmanship, just in style and fabric choice!) It too was a print on a brown background. The sleeves were gathered into the cuff also. I have noticed too the trend to pleating into the cuff. Here's my take on it. I think at some point it was done to mimic menswear, and then became standard b/c it was easier/cheaper to do. Personally, I prefer the look of a real "blouse", with soft gathers at the cuffs and at the yoke, if there is one. But I am also someone who craves the return of bow blouses, ruffles, lace jabots...preferably all in silk. Yeah, I know, back to reality.
Wellie looks so sweet . I used to have a cat that looked very much like that named "Wallie" Funny
Bravo, Summerset!
(and I just can't get enough of Wellie's pictures!)
It's been so much fun watching you complete these through the months! Can't believe you only have 2 left to make!
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