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I had read on a blog that this pattern is one of the few patterns of this style of blouse that you can use cotton or silk fabrics instead of knit fabrics, so I thought I'd try it. Of course I didn't read the Pattern Reviews on it before I started it!
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This pattern is huge! Luckily I did a muslin, but unfortunately didn't get a picture of the muslin that was huge.
Here is a photo, though, in which you can see the permanent marker lines showing how much I folded the front and back pattern pieces over to make it smaller. I used the size 14, which corresponded to bust and waist. Sorry, I tried to make these bigger, but couldn't get it to work for some reason, so it's hard to see. You can click on the photos though.
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So I ended up taking out several inches. You can see by the pattern envelope that the neck facing doesn't lay nicely and that there are wrinkles extending to the armholes. I decided to extend the neckline up about 2 1/2 inches. Luckily, it turned out great! I made my own 1/2 inch self-facing and put that on.
All in all, I really like how the blouse turned out and would make it again with these corrections. I also did a rolled hem on the serger for the sleeve hems.
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