I’m starting to think that I became addicted to garments and…

This time I decided to try something that I truly love and wished to have more on my own closet, smock blouses! They are perfect for a casual spring/summer look and soooo comfortable.

You can find all the instructions of how to make on the pages 40 and 41. Once again everything was really well explained with plenty of graphics and illustrations on the “critical” parts. This pattern is a great opportunity to train some gather stitches and also have a very interesting double fold placket with buttons (I know, time to use that special button hole foot from your sewing machine girl!). I’m ok making the button holes using the sewing machine, it’s something that I always need to look again in the manual before I start because I don’t actually sew garments all the time. But, confession… I’m NOT ok by attaching the buttons with the sewing machine! Just the idea of the needle passing through the button makes me really panic. It’s like having a car that parks by itself, it will never work for me… I have trust issues ;) So I attached the buttons by hand.

Happy sewing!

Carolina