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.
Beautiful combo job! And I love that unicorn skirt too! They go nicely together.
ReplyDeleteA Franken-blouse! What a fantastic makeover and magical with that incredible unicorn skirt! xxx
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a great makeover, well worth all the effort. And how absolutely fabulous is that unicorn skirt! xxx
ReplyDeleteThis 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!
ReplyDeleteWell done on combining the two blouses! That skirt is amazing!
ReplyDeleteStellar 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!!!
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