Tag: Simplicity 2255

Letter Blouse

This blouse is literally ‘Made with Love’ if you read across the letters. Based on a heavily modified Simplicity pattern, it wears and coordinates wonderfully.

I’d found this fabric on the fabric market (pre-pandemic) and thought it was wonderful. It’s got letters on it! Only after quite a while of puzzling with my pattern layout did I figure out that it actually says Made With Love if you look across the rows.

Now the first attempt at using this fabric is lingering in the Corner of Shame. I originally chose the free button down jacket from Bootstrap Fashion to make a long sleeved blouse. However, I couldn’t get it to fit at all, so I chucked it i the CoS. The leftover bits of original fabric were used to create something out of little. I used my tried and true short sleeve blouse pattern (also used here and here and here). This is a heavily modified version of Simplicity 2255.

It worked well. The fabric coordinates with a lot of my clothing, even if I may become a bit of a walking pattern clash. In all honesty, I think I like being non-standard in my clothing choices, so this isn’t something negative to me. Hopefully I’ll be able to find a long sleeve blouse pattern that does fit me…

Poppers on Plaid

At some point a while ago, I impulsively went to the fabric market in Utrecht. I’d woken up really early and got myself on a train by 7:25. The fabric market in Rotterdam was not up and running yet at 9 when I got there, so I decided to trek on for another hour and go to Utrecht. Met my parents there and had a good time with them. I also got a number of fabrics to play around with. Two of those were destined to be together, one blue plaid with brown stripes and a brown fabric.

 

I started with the blue plaid and made a shirt out of it. The pattern was the same as for Red Birds and Foxes, Simplicity Naaimode 9, model 59 (aka Simplicity 2255). I downsized the pattern to a size 34-36(ish) and changed the back darts. Once it was sewed up, it was decidedly too long, so I cut off about 5 cm. It closes using snaps (or poppers). Since I bought myself a snap-setting-tool, I’ve been trying to put snaps onto everything. There is little more satisfying then undoing poppers like the hulk when undressing.

For the next iteration (and there will be a next iteration), I’ll make sure to make the armholes smaller. For this version they are a little too big, in a sense restricting a little movement. The side seams on the pattern are not equal, and I might fix that on the pattern for next time. I do still enjoy wearing it, so all’s well.