Sewing Project: Two shirts combined


I had two really cute blouses, neither of which was a good fit. 

 Blouse One:

Cute fit and pintucks but it is loose at the top and opens up badly at the front if you don't constantly tense your shoulders.


Blouse Two: 
Absolutely gorgeous yoke but many, many sizes too small!


Just to make things harder, the second blouse is so well sewn! The seams are even covered over with a beautiful selvedge! Lots of work to unpick!


The yoke unpicked. Finally!


The yoke pinned to the other blouse. Thankfully, the neckline around the top was nearly an identical match! It still took a bit of effort, though!


All sewn together! 

It's not perfect, the collar underneath peeks through a bit at one point. The machine did not like all the layers so the sewing tension inside is a bit messy, thankfully it looks good on the outside. 



The skirt is from Dangerfield's The Lady and the Unicorn collection. This was a collaboration with the Art Gallery of NSW when the tapestries came to Australia in 2018.

Comments

  1. Debra She Who Seeks6 April 2022 at 11:15

    Beautiful combo job! And I love that unicorn skirt too! They go nicely together.

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  2. Vix6 April 2022 at 15:43

    A Franken-blouse! What a fantastic makeover and magical with that incredible unicorn skirt! xxx

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  3. Polyester Princess7 April 2022 at 03:00

    Wow, that's a great makeover, well worth all the effort. And how absolutely fabulous is that unicorn skirt! xxx

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  4. Bracken Crafts- 100 garments9 April 2022 at 22:58

    This is really lovely. Well done. I always find its much harder to upcycle than to make from scratch. I would not worry a bit about the inside. It looks fine from here. Love the skirt. Very unusual!

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  5. Sheila12 April 2022 at 05:57

    Well done on combining the two blouses! That skirt is amazing!

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  6. Witchcrafted Life21 April 2022 at 16:24

    Stellar job! Both were lovely originally, but are all the more gorgeous combined in this way. Way to go on breathing new life into these pieces. You rock!!!

    Autumn Zenith 🧡 Witchcrafted Life

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