This summer I tried really hard to get back to sewing for real. I find summer sewing to be easy: you can use light, airy cottons, easy to get through the sewing machine, and prints, prints, prints. I don’t actually wear as many prints as my admiration for them would warrant.
My favorite summer project was the Violet blouse I made (from Colette Patterns – I love this independent pattern company, everything they do is elegant and clean and the way they package everything and wrap it up in a mood and a feeling and a sense of community! Brilliant). I made the shorter gathered-sleeve version, out of recycled sari fabric I bought on eBay.
The fabric, a light, translucent kind of cotton, felt so lovely on the hottest of summer days. I never felt sweaty wearing it. I used pearly snaps instead of buttons, in hindsight probably too many of them, but I liked the snaps and the tiny, tiny bit of cowgirl-ness they lend the blouse so… there you go.
Since then, I’ve been unable to put snaps on anything without either breaking the pretty pearly part or wrecking the snaps completely by installing them off kilter. I have no idea why.
Vintage saris reused for scarves & blouses… at butterflylike network says:
[...] saris that turn out not to be silk? I’m planning to use them for blouses and so forth. Like this one I made last summer, using the Violet pattern by Colette [...]
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 14:59.