Sewing a Breezy White Blouse in Embroidery of Pink

For my birthday I wanted a new blouse, so I dug through my fabric and pattern stash.

FABRIC, PATTERN, AND BUTTON STASHBUSTING

From the fabric stash I pulled a lovely 100% soft cotton white fabric with pink embroidered flowers I originally a purchase from Hancock Fabrics when I lived in San Antonio many years ago.

For the pattern, I settled on Simplicity 8090, view C.

Thinking that combination would pair well with my pale pink embroidered capri pants, I imagined it would be comfortably cute on journeys out and about with vintage flair.

SEWING PROCESS

Since I’m neither a fan of fiddling with sewing collars nor do I enjoy wearing blouses that have collars, I was pleased that everything came out well.

Since my Pfaff is impossible to use with the buttonhole attachment, I hand-worked the buttonholes.

At least that is good 18^th century practice for me.

GLOUCESTER PHOTO SHOOT

Happily, I wore my new blouse on my birthday, along with my newly trimmed hat and my favorite capris.

On that day my kids kidnapped me for Gloucester for some 18^th century journeys.

While at Rosewell Plantation, my daughter took some photos of me with my cell phone.

It was such a fun day, and one of our last warm days before the autumnal chills hit Virginia.

For more photos, check my Flickr set.