I used Wearing History's Smooth Sailing Blouse and Michael Miller's Wild Blue Yonder fabric. I lengthened the shirt by two inches and then only did a half inch hem, which added another inch of length. Necessary for me to wear it with out high waisted pants. I used Casey's tutorial on sleeve ease to take out a lot of the puff on the sleeves. Not as historically accurate, but I wanted to make something I would actually wear. (the link to that: http://blog.caseybrowndesigns.com/2010/12/demystifying-sleeve-ease/)
There are so many flowers blooming around the property right now.
Working in the Victory Garden
Bran the boarder collie was sitting under my bench the whole time while working on this shirt.
The back
The tree behind me is a Flamingo Dogwood and is was apparently very popular in the 1950's. I think it is beautiful and should make a comeback.
My sister and I had a good time take the photos for the blog, and I'm thinking about starting to regularly post my sewing projects. Just need to learn how to properly format things and what not! I had a lot of fun participating in my first sew-a-long though!
