MeMadeMay 2019 Day 13

“MeMadeMay (2019) day 13. I’ve stuck through almost 2 weeks, y’all. This is the *other* blouse I made from Rifle Paper Co. fabric from Harts Fabric and… it’s a mess. The pattern was from 1953 and substantially less clear on instructions, with respect to the other blouse I made from this fabric. Whatever. It’s wearable.”

This was Simplicity 4238, as mentioned from 1953. And it was, indeed, a mess. The instructions didn’t really make it clear, on first blush, that the facing and the button band were all sort of one thing, and I didn’t have a whole lot of fabric to speak of after I made the first blouse anyway, and (because I wasn’t as picky about only buying patterns within a specific size range at the beginning) I had to do slightly more resizing than I would have liked. …Which then went completely out the window, because of the aforementioned issue with the facing and button band being a singular thing. …Basically I added an inch to the front which subsequently got entirely consumed by the facing/button band situation, so it ended up being hilariously tight.

I did end up culling this piece from my wardrobe, but I can’t even actually tell you what happened to it. It either went to the Village Discount outlet in one of the NINE GARBAGE BAGS of clothes that I got rid of during the pandemic, or it ended up in an Ampersand sale.