Vogue 1127 Blouse

Here is how it all started - I had previously made up V1127 blouse above - in fact I made the whole suit and was wearing the blouse for work one day.  My colleague and I went for a couple of drinks after work because she was leaving the company and commented how much she liked my blouse, and before I could stop myself, I said "oh I will make you one for your leaving present".

Now that was 2 weeks ago, and you would think - yep can run that up in two weeks but I had to go and find some fabric, as close to or similar to the one I had on, and squeeze the sewing project into no free weekend between me promising to make the blouse and a trip to The Hague.

So Thursday night I dashed up to my sewing room - rooted through all my patterns to dig out the pattern and cut out some nice silk fabric that I purchased from my local market.

I had worked the whole of the previous weekend prepping for a meeting with my boss so I told her I was taking Friday off to compensate.  I started the blouse at 7:30am and by 12:20 I had finished the blouse, done a little bit of work, had a shower, dressed and was in a taxi to the railway station to head up to London.

Here is the end result:

I am really pleased with the blouse.  To save time I used little pearl buttons rather than self-covered ones that I used for my blouse.

This is a really simple pattern, however Vogue do not really help much in the instructions for the neck collar - but once I walked away and had a cup of tea I manage to work it out.

I didn't cut the bias strips to bind the armcye edges but just used some bias ribbon.

The Hem was rolled using my Babylock serger.

My friend is delighted with blouse and I am delighted that I managed to finish it in time.  She is starting a new job in two weeks and said that she intends to wear the blouse so that it will appear on her photo ID for ever more.

Enjoy wearing it Temi.