When I met Datura...

 

WARNING: there are a lot of pictures in this post :-)

 

"Damn! You are on fire!!" That's what my boyfriend said the other day when I showed him another finished project in my workshop. Indeed, I've been quite productive lately and I'm enjoying it a LOT really.

Let me introduce you to my new tops. I tried Datura from....? You know it...go on...say it! Deer and Doe of course. Maybe I'll just try to do all their patterns until I get sick of them (like this could happen, right?!).

 

Datura wasn't at the top of my list even though it was on it, but as I was waiting for another pattern to come through the post which hadn't arrived, and got frustrated because I had no project on that weekend. That's when the beauty of PDF patterns kicks in: I went online and in 5 minutes I had a project to keep me busy for the weekend. I've used fabrics from my old stock: all fabrics are a few years old.

 

I started with the blue one:

 

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The buttons are sewn directly to the fabric so the back doesn't open

Then found this yellow dotted cotton: I remember buying it back then for a dress but changed my mind and never got around to use it in the end. Love the contrast with the black piping, gives me a little bumble bee look but I find it so cute :-)

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this bias tape method for the hem is so cool!

And as I still had some time left on that Sunday, I made another one to end the weekend:

 

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There you have it...or them! Making three in a row was helpful actually because it was tricky the first time around to put the shoulders together. I had to read the explanations several times and look at some tutorials online to understand how to do it to be honest. If it wasn't for that, I would have probably finished them a bit faster I think.

 

But in all, another Deer and Doe pattern I'm happy with!

 

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Pattern: Datura blouse by Deer and Doe

Fabrics: blue cotton (cretonne) from Mondial Tissus; yellow cotton from Mondial Tissus; others are plain cotton fabrics from Laurent Tissus