Saturday, November 21, 2009

Patrones blouse no 63 – issue 284

The line drawing from the magazine

The picture and my version beside.

As I told you in a previous post, the blouse is in the plus size range of Patrones. The smallest size is 50, and bust measurement for that size is almost 20 cm more than my bust size. Not a good idea to try to make that pattern smaller, too much difference.

But when you look at the picture in the magazine and at the cutting layout, you’ll see that this is a basic v-neckline blouse with vertical darts (picture on the left). What I did was finding a Burda pattern with the same type of dart in my size. In the March issue of 2005 I found the blouse of the picture on the right. I transferred the neckline of the Patrones pattern to this one and compared it to the neckline of another blouse I made with a V-neckline. For this pattern I traced a size 40 in the shoulder area, and tapered down to 42 at bust level. For the cuff and collar I referred to the instructions of Patrones: basic rectangles.

 

 

After showing the picture of the cuff earlier this week I put the sleeves in, and found them too puffy. So I took the elastic out and used longer elastic. Much better now.

 

 

Detail of the collar. It’s handstitched to the neckline.This picture does the color best justice on my monitor. The fabric is purple with black lines and a bit of shine in it.

 

Another inside picture. The instructions don’t tell you what to do with the edges of the collar and cuff, where the cords are pulled through. I made a small seam before foldeing the collar part and left them open between the lines of stitching for elastic/cords. You can see that in the picture below.

I made sure that the seam of the collar was not at one of the edges, but a little off the the center on the under side of the collar. In this way the gathering of the edges of the collar is the same, there is no extra thickness at one of the edges.

All in all a nice project to work on, and I’m quite happy with the result.

22 comments:

  1. Beautiful blouse. The collar is very interesting!

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  2. Really nice blouse, Sigrid! Very classy and stylish!

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  3. Lovely and perfectly classy on you! Love your fabric choice too.

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  4. This is a very stylish blouse and your work is beautiful.

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  5. Loooove it! great adapation or merge of the two patterns, and looks really nice styled with pants and the belt! Congrats!

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  6. Well done! The collar is beautiful.

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  7. I love how you made this work! The blouse is stunning!!!

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  8. Very WOW, Sigrid. You've worked it and worked it well. I love the collar and your version of the sleeves.

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  9. What a unique and beautiful blouse!

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  10. Wow - that is fabulous! A great version of that blouse really well done and a fabulous blouse that would match any upmarket boutique clothing!

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  11. Yay, you made it! The collar came out really nice!

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  12. Love your fabric choice,the eyes can go from the ruffle to the fabric and don't just stay on the ruffle! Lovely blouse.

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  13. I love the blouse. The collar and cuffs are fascinating and stylish.

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  14. Ooh, lovely! Good job on adapting a Burda pattern.

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  15. It's nice job and looks great on you.

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  16. That is lovely! I'm going to have to follow your example with this one.

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  17. I love all those jacket patterns, but I think #1 is my favorite.

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  18. love that neckline. I had no idea Patrones made plus sizes.

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  19. Your blouse is beautiful. It looks black on my monitor, but I can imagine it looks even prettier in purple. That is a really interesting collar, I haven't see one like it before.

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  20. Beautiful! This is everything a blouse should be - feminine, delicate and with lovely little details. I'm glad the wrist worked out for you.

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