I purchased some Gertie Rayon from Spotlight about a year ago and it's been sitting in my stash waiting for the perfect project ever since. For a while it was earmarked for a wrap skirt, until I came to the realisation that I rarely wear skirts and I'd be better using it for something I thought would actually get some wear.
![Ella Blouse](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4783/40740119701_a90a218d96_z.jpg)
Enter the Sew Over It Ella Blouse, I purchased it last year either as part of the PDF Club or during a sale, I can't quite remember. I traced it off not long after buying it but never got around to actually cutting out what I had traced, that is until Friday night. I should have been doing some stuy but I really, really didn't want to.
![Ella Blouse](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4772/40740050691_23e4a24a14_z.jpg)
It was actually a quick sew, I cut out the pattern Saturday morning and had it finished to wear for dinner that night even though I had lunch out and went shopping as well. There are actually only 4 pattern pieces so it does come together fairly quickly.
![Ella Blouse](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4794/25869026507_2cca1f64bc_z.jpg)
I decided to add a peplum onto the bottom of the pattern as I don't really wear that many high waisted things and I love the look of a peplum. I simply measured the bottom circumference of the blouse and then used the By Hand London Circle Skirt Calculator to calculate the radius needed for a half circle skirt. I ended up adding a nine inch half circle peplum as that was as much as I could get out of the fabric I had (I purchased about 2.2m from memory). Given that I added the peplum I added a button hole to thread the straps in order to allow them to still be tied at the waist.
![Ella Blouse](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4776/40740062841_81640911c5_z.jpg)
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and considering I'd been wearing it for all day when I took these photos it wrinkles less than I imagined. I also just noticed in this photo I never ironed off my marks from where I traced the peplum, oh well, that's life!
Anyway, I'm hoping to get a bit more sewing completed over the next few weeks, I've been sewing little things for a friends daughter and really enjoying the process but I'm actually hoping to try a few new patterns when I have some fabric arrive during the week, when I can fit it around some study obviously!
Pattern - Sew Over It Ella Blouse
Size/Changes - 16 I think, maybe it was a 14, added peplum
Fabric - Gertie Rayon from Spotlight in Navy ( no longer online)
I will have to get you to show me how to are the peplum.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the look of wrap tops but I would never wear it without the extra added length
This is absolutely fantastic!!!! It looks beautiful on you! I love the Ella blouse, I bought it as soon as it came out, printed out the pattern and assembled it, then put it aside since. Because I don't really wear high waisted garments very often and wondered how I could ever make the pattern work for me. Your peplum seems like the perfect solution!
ReplyDelete