I got to wear the finished blouse today when my sons and I took my mom to lunch to celebrate her 82nd birthday. I am so blessed to have her, besides the arthritis, in good health.
I did not do buttonholes on the very narrow sleeve band. I added a snap and sew the button on =)
I'm pretty happy with how the buttonholes turned out.
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| here you can see my modified facings |
The fabric is a cotton batiste from Metro Textiles which I bought on my trip to NYC during PR weekend a couple of years ago and it was a very easy fabric to work with. I made french seams because of the sheerness of the material, it is such a nice finish.
The skirt is
Vogue 1247 which I made last summer and gets a lot of love from me.
The pictures are showing a bit of wrinkling in the sleeve head but there are truly none, I don't know why it showed that way.
This a great basic, I can also see wearing it layered over a tank top. I am now working in the shirt dress which uses this same pattern but adds vertical darts to the front and back, with short sleeves.
