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<\/a><\/p>\nIt may not look like much, but this little blouse is the product of my very. first. drafted. pattern.<\/p>\n
It all started with a Stitchfix box.<\/p>\n
I signed up for Stitchfix<\/a> after a friend recommended it on Facebook. It’s a pretty neat service, actually, especially for people like me who loathe shopping with the fire of a thousand suns. You sign up, answer a bunch of quiz questions about your personal style preferences, and then with the frequency of your choosing (monthly, bi-monthly, or just whenever you ask for one) you get a box with five items picked for you by a professional stylist. You try on the stuff, keep what you want (and pay for it when you “check out” online) and send back what you don’t. It’s $20 per box, and the $20 is credited toward anything you purchase. Not a bad idea, right?<\/p>\n At any rate, I signed up to help fill out the “grown-up” part of my wardrobe that I needed for Awful Job, and was generally pretty happy with the stuff I got. In this particular box, there was a lovely rayon blouse in a sort of tie-dye pattern I wasn’t too crazy about. It had two layers in the front that cleverly folded over each other like the petals of a tulip. I loved it, but it was pricier than I could conscion, especially considering I wasn’t crazy about the fabric pattern. As I sat turning it over in my hands, it hit me:<\/p>\n The blouse was only two pattern pieces. With bias binding at the neckline and armholes. The hamster wheel in my brain began to turn and I grabbed my tracing paper, French curve, and a pencil. An hour later, I had a pattern.<\/p>\n I dug through my fabric stash and found a pretty floral rayon challis in a similar weight to the blouse, and got to work. And that above? My result.<\/p>\n I love it. It’s drapey and flowy and comfy and cool, and while I think I need to re-grade the armholes and neckline a bit for the next one I make, it’s a totally serviceable pattern that I made ALL BY MYSELF.<\/p>\n Sewing achievement: unlocked. Booyah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fair warning: I am insanely proud of this project. It may not look like much, but this little blouse is the product of my very. first. drafted. pattern. It all started with a Stitchfix box. I signed up for Stitchfix after a friend recommended it on Facebook. It’s a pretty neat service, actually, especially for people like me who loathe shopping with the fire of a thousand suns. You sign.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,22,21],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-finished-object","tag-tops","tag-triumph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}