It's a good job my office is so warm as I've just finished sewing a short-sleeved lightweight cotton blouse. The reason it took so long is that it's a self-drafted pattern and I'm a perfectionist. The design includes a gathered yoke line on front and back, button down front, pussy bow neckline and gathered sleeve hem. It took a lot of refining and redrawing, and even when I'd finished this version I could still see parts I wanted to change further. But having worn the blouse all day today it's really grown on me and I feel very comfortable in it. Perhaps I was just staring at it too long and imagining problems that weren't there. Does that ever happen to you?
The bow is the perfect length - it's long enough to look like a serious bow, yet not so long that there's a danger it'd dangle in my dinner. I'm also pleased with how it's constructed and am feeling rather smug about the neatness of the finish. Which makes a change!
Hurrah for finished projects!
[Soundtrack: 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' by Bob Dylan]
