0 Finished- The Taffy Blouse!

Well, I finished it!  Yay!  I wanted to finish this by the end of Sew Colette, and I did....but then the weather was too awful to get photographs in time.

So here I am in my humble back yard, wearing a chiffon top at the start of winter.  I think it might be time to start planning my projects seasonally...

 I'm rather pleased with myself for managing to sew a chiffon top as a beginner!   This also marks my first top, as well as a bunch of other firsts (french seams, successful sba, working with bias, and bias binding)!

I made two muslins, and the fit isn't perfect, but it works well enough for me!  I'm going to do another post on my fitting changes :)

Guys, guys!  Check out the lack of bagginess in the bust!!

I also used a funny trick for stabilising the chiffon.  It seemed to work quite well!  Here is the tutorial I made on it.

However, cutting was still a nightmare- it was so slippery, slide-y and crazy.  I would have done a lot better with a better cutting area I think (mine wasn't wide enough to accomodate the pattern pieces, so I had to shift fabric in the middle of cutting- NOT recommended!).  In the end, I was rather surprised and pleased to find that this came out looking like a top!

The tie in the back means the fit is forgiving :)

The very full sleeves are a new look for me, but I quite like it!  Of course the famous Wellington wind had a bit of fun with them...

Heh heh :)