A Blouse!
Making things involves traial and error and tweaking and trying again. Even with commercial clothing patterns. Variances in fabrics, the bod it’s on and the phase of the moon converge to make finished garments often look different from those on the pattern envelope.
This blouse turned out a little differently than I expected from the drawing on the pattern envelope. (Patterns with photos show better what the garment will look like than drawings.) The elastic fell at the waist, which seemed okay starting out, but in reality it needed to be higher–at least for me. So tonight I added a row of elastic above the one the pattern called for at the waist. Better. When I make it again I’ll probbably put three rows of elastic and maybe even forget the waist and move them up a few inches. It’ll make it fall better as well.
Moral of the story: make a trial garment. That’s what this is.
Here’s the blouse with a sweater my mom gave me. I made the necklace as well.
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