Hehe, in order to avoid falling into a rut and boring you with repeat photos of the beach I’m making an effort to seek out new locations, variety is the spice of life, so they say. Thus, the toasty tones of my lovely rocky wall backdrop setting off the all-white ensemble here. Beautiful wall, no? It is actually the outer wall of the toilet block down here at the beach. Yeeeeah, I’m so sorry to completely ruin any romantic notions you may be entertaining about my “picturesque” backdrops… ! honesty in blogging, and all that… the same beach from yesterday is a mere stone’s throw away from this spot. That’s even for a pathetic stone-thrower like me with a truly “girly” throwing arm…
I didn’t use the KwikSew hoodie pattern as planned! Instead of racing irresponsibly off to the fabric store willy nilly for white stretch fabric I was a good girl and took stock of my stash first, and of course there were a few lengths of white fabric already lurking in there with no purpose: one was this ivory lace. It’s not super high quality and not stretchy and I only had about 1.2m… so couldn’t use the KwikSew pattern, but just right for the old standby Butterick 4985. I have used this pattern a multitude of times already. I made a few adjustments, obviously the biggest is the addition of the hood. For this I did use the KwikSew hood pattern piece but re-drafted somewhat drastically; cut it down smaller to suit the finer more delicate fabric I was using here, and also adjusted the neck edge length to fit the collar edge of the top, so the hood actually replaces the collar and is sandwiched in between the fronts and facing just like a collar would be. I really just treated the hood like a giant oddly shaped collar. I sewed the hood’s own centre seam in a French seam. The back neck edge is finished in a flat felled seam. The open edge of the hood is the selvedge of the fabric, which is a nice sealed flat edge already, making any further finishing unnecessary.Sleeves: I drafted a sleeve with a long flat sleeve cap like a man’s, and the rest of the sleeve is basically a wide and untapered tube. I like the unstructured casual flappiness of this new shape.
Buttons; I lucked out and found these perfect ivory buttons with embossed roses and flowers, perfect, no? to go with the rose motif in the lace. Rather than my usual habit of sewing all the buttons the same way up I sewed them on alternately up and down, to try to match the random rose pattern in the lace…
This is so pretty. I love the technical sewing stuff, please keep it coming, you know there are keen copyists out there who need this information (um, that would be me)
How come toilet blocks in Perth are made of cool rocks? You would not want a photo of the toilet blocks at our beach. I will speak to the council!
A lace hooded blouse – pure magic Carolyn!
Oh my, Carolyn, you manage to make a photoshoot in front of a toilet block look very elegant and glamorous 😀 I would have never thought of using lace for a hooded blouse, but it looks great!
How original and what a perfect piece.
So playful! I'm not a fan of lace usually, but this is fantastic! Any tips on adding a hood to an existing pattern? I've no idea how to do it.
The rock wall is gorgeous, even if it IS on a toilet. 🙂 I'm totally jealous of your gorgeous weather!
That is just beautiful, Caroline. Thanks for sharing it with us. I might try something like that. Maybe.
Really pretty!! I love the lace hood.
I Love this, its gorgeous!
It's a beautiful hoodie. And as long as you're doing shorts in unexpected fabrics, why not lace shorts?
Beautiful backdrop and very cool garments …hmmm… our beach toilet blocks do not even come close to the magnificence of yours!
Beautiful, I love the buttons!
Funny how "ivory lace" and "hoodie" compliment each other…
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