Blouse Mirte

This blouse is made after the pattern Mirte made by the very talented pattern drafter that founded Created in Xland (link here).  Ms De Rooy makes patterns for the sewing enthusiast - there's always lots of different construction steps.  And sometimes that's exactly what I want.  Take this blouse, it has pencil pleats at the upper arms, a puffed sleeve head, ruffles along the cuffs and of course a double ruffle-plus-mao-collar.  It's just too cute.  And something else I found out during this project: vichy checks are my new favorite fabric!  You just HAVE to sew straight ;-).  It helped a great deal with getting the pencil pleats neat. 

The blouse looked great this summer over white skinny jeans, and will wear well into the winter over either jeans or underneath the dark blue babycord suspender dress I made last year.