Finishing Touches: Burda Floaty Blouse & Vintage Butterick Yoke Blouse

It has been a slow week for me. Having the flu and about 7 inches of snow really put a damper on my sewing plans. The snow and early sunsets make taking pictures of summery makes very difficult, but that is a bad excuse and since it was sunny this afternoon I made sure to take some pictures of my latest on my dress form at least.

I left you last with an almost completed Burda blouse in a red viscose batiste. My much anticipated buttons came in and I love these cherry red 1940s shank buttons. They have slight variations in the color as if they weren’t mixed thoroughly. Imperfections that don’t affect quality are why I like to use vintage, it gives it more personality. And best of all this card of buttons has 24 and I only needed 7 this time around.

Next up was the Butterick 5238 yoke blouse that you have followed along with my alteration process. I had been waiting on a few special shirting cottons ordered from India to come in (thank you etsy!) I wasn’t sure which one I wanted until I had them in my hands. I ended up choosing beautiful cream cotton dobby with woven in strands of black and red.

As you can see in the photo the backside of the fabric has the ends of the woven in colored strands poking out in little tufts. I kind of like the effect and seriously considered using that as the correct side.

I used my previously altered pattern and everything came together smoothly. I put the covered buttons on with the pattern moving horizontally to make them stand out a bit more from the rest of the shirt. I can’t wait for it to be warm enough to wear these blouses.

And here is a little teaser about my next make, Elaine pants by Colette Patterns. I made three toiles to get the fitting right. (Pants are hard!) Sewing pants always make me feel like my body was not made for clothing during the fitting stages, and so happy to wear once they are done.

Ahhh, the glories of pants fitting. So many alteration marks!