Sewing patterns are available HERE
Hello everyone and welcome to another project I completed in April.
This was a time consuming project for these few reasons:
- I had to make some researches on how an Armistice Blouse should be done
- I had to figure out the best way to make it
- I did mock-ups
- I spent a whole week doing the lace by hand. Yes, you read it right, by hand!
I started with an illustration and anything else, and I had so much fun reproducing this blouse with zero experience in Armistice Blouses (it was something popular at that time). But the challenging part was making the lace. I spent so much time on youtube and pinterest looking for something I could use, and in the end I made the design by myself (never done before…)
I love challenging myself but I’m terrible at planning a deadline, this is why it took me so much. And it’s just a “simple” blouse, isn’t it?
The illustration was clear enough but, if you have some experience with tucks, you probably now that each tuck changes based on your measures, and here comes the troubles. I had to calculate the right amount of tucks for the collar, the center panel and sleeves.
Oh, and you see that some tucks are brighter than others? Probably the used silk bias tape or something like that to enhance the ones on the center panels and on sleeves, but I had just a plain cotton and I thought the design was already hard enough to experiment new things.
Once the lace was done the blouse was 50% done. I had to applied it on tucks, doing the center panel, collar and sleeves: more or less I made 9 meters of lace and I calculated the possible shrinkage too (never knows!). So, at the end my Armistice Blouse it’s perfect for spring but not ideal for hot Italian’s summers.
I had to use 1,5 m of cotton and I’m glad I did since the lace add some weight to the blouse.
On my shop I uploaded the patterns (S-XXL) and a step-by-step tutorial with more than 100 images.
Hope you like it!
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