My latest makes for Gaby - a cropped blouse with ties at the fronts and paperbag shorts.
For months I've been planning a blouse for her with ties at the front. I considered a Burda pattern from a magazine I own, but it was long sleeved and a bit too open at the front. Then I downloaded a similar free french pattern, but Gaby didn't like the back of the blouse. So last week I browsed the Burda.ru site for sleeveless shirts and came upon Burda 6924 - it is cropped, with ties at the front and tailored at the back - just what I was looking for. I bought it and immediately printed it, cut and glued the pattern pieces and added my usual height corrections - removed 1 cm above the armscye and 1 cm above the waist, as regular Burda patterns are drafted for height 168 cm and Gaby is 163 cm.
I followed the scanty instructions of the Burda pattern, my only modifications, beside the height adjustment, were my seams, which are french, and I covered the seam at the back between the neck and the collar with a bias tape, so I have no exposed fabric ends. And I reduced the buttons to four - five seemed a bit redundant for such a small cropped blouse with a lapel :)
My second make are the shorts. I browsed for paperbag shorts and liked a lot of RTW items. The main features i wanted to recreate were the pockets, the paperbag waist, the turned cuffs and the large belt holders and the belt. For the basis of the pattern I used a true and tried Burda pattern - #117 of issue 05 / 2013.
I modified heavily the original long pants design - shortened them to 20 cm below the crotch, removed the upper elongations of the parts and added a separate belt, into half of which I added an elastic. I also made 5 long belt holders and a 6 cm wide 170 cm long belt, which Gaby skipped yesterday, as the tie of the shirt didn't combine well with the tie of the shorts belt.
A view of the shorts with the belt, tied in a butterfly:
I love her shorts.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I like that style a lot.
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