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Adult-size Peasant Blouse TutorialI've been losing weight recently (yay!) and as my sizing is at the moment influctuation, and many of my blouses now look like big, baggy, daggy night-shirts onme (and funds are a bit tight at the moment) I needed to make myself some cheap

topsblouses, (that also suited me and looked nice) I decided to make myself a coupleof peasant tops

I couldn't find a commercial pattern that I liked (they all seemed to have really low cutnecks), and I found a wonderful tutorial by Vegbeeon how to make a peasant blousefor little 'uns It really showed me how to constructa peasant blouse "ou rock,#egbee!

I needed to find a way to measure myself to make an adult-size peasant blouse(I kind of muddled along at this, I'm terrible at mathematics!) $his has taken me abouta week of measuring, sewing % toils - the neck-line and arm-holes were tricky I overestimated my size on one of them you could have fit two of me in it! "es, I dosuckthat much at measurements! &ucky I sewed using the largest stitch on my machine!

I prefer a slightly higher neckline, so I make my armscye (the armhole) deeper dustthe depth of the armscye to suit yourself, to be shallower, if you prefer an off theshoulder* or lower (wider) neckline

+ust for your information

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Step One Find your measurements:

Find your width (measurement !

"ou need to find where your widest measurement is

$o do this, measure yourself around your bust and your hips

(I say to measure your bust and hips because some are bigger in the bust thantheir hips and vice-versa)

y widest measurement was around my hips, which was 124 cm or 49"

.ivide this amount in half / for me, it was 62 cm or 24 "

.ivide this in half again / for me, it was 1 cm or 12 !"

0hatever your measurement, add 4# cm or 1 $"

1or me, this measurement %&easurement 1'was ##6 cm or 14"



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Find your len"th (measurement #!

easure from the top of your shoulder, over the point of your bust, to howeverlong you want your top

1or me, this measurement %&easurement 2'was (4cm or 29"

Find your armhole depth (measurement $!

easure your armscye (arm-hole) by measuring from the top of your shoulder to

how deep you want your armhole, to appro2imately the seam-line under your arm

1or me, this measurement %&easurement 'is 11cm or 12 !"

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Step Two %raw up your pattern pie&es:

'ulin" up the odi&e paper

3n a large piece of paper)draw up a rectangle with the dimensions fromeasurement 4 and easurement 5 / for me that was a rectangle with a

dimension of 6%%7 cm 8 9:cm or 4:; 8 5


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'ulin" up the ne&)hole:

3n the same rectangular piece of paper, at the upper left corner, measure do*n/ cm or 1 ", make a small mark

=ule a light line from this point to the point previously shown

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%rawin" oth the arm- and ne&)-holes:

>se a curved ruler fle2ible ruler to draw a curved line from one point to another(as shown in illustration)

If you haven*t got a curved ruler, ust sketch it very lightly with a pencil until youare happy with the curve $hen go over with a darker pencil line

If you take a piece of string, and lay it over the harm-hole and measure it(green linein illustration below), it should be about 11cm or 12 !", which is&easurement "ou may have to adust the angle of your curved ruler sketching to get to be the right depth for you

I haven't really mentioned the nec0-ole dept and measurements, because itis elasticizeddrawstring and you can adust the elastic (or drawstring) to suit yoursizing re?uirements



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"ou will end up with the arm- and neck-holes drawn as shown in the picture below

*ow +or the slee,es:

I am having a puff* sleeve, so I need a bit of space in my sleeve

I want a slightly longer sleeve to make it puffy, but not too puffy y sleeve will need to be about 4#(2 cm or 1/" long, by 2(94 cm or 11", on

the fold (opened upit would be 4#(2 cm or 1/" ##// cm or 22")

$his can be made shorter, the choice is yours

$he sleeve pattern is easy to make, take a rectangle, and use the neck- and arm-holes of the bodice section as a template n e2planation follows

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$ake another piece of rectangular paper, 4#(2 cm or 1/" long, by 2(94 cm or11", place it beneath your bodice section

@old the smaller piece of paper in place by paper clips or some other non-permanent adhesive (such as blu-tac or low-stick tape)

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Aut around the neck-hole and arm-hole guidelines (the parts discarded arerepresented by the grey bits)

$hese are the paper templates that you should end up with



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ark your pattern pieces so you know which part is what

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Step Three ut out your +ari&:

.ayin" out and &uttin" the +ari&:

&ayout the fabric, place the bodice section on the fold, and the sleeve section onthe fold

Aut out

I cheat a bit and cut two layers on the fold / be care.ul, though, some fabrics arenaturally a bit slippy*, and this can cause issues when cutting out (such as onepart being misaligned)



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Step Four Sewin" your louse:

Sew the slee,es to the armholes:

Blace a sleeve piece on a bodice piece, sew around arm-hole (shown by red line)

Blace the second sleeve piece on the other arm-hole Cew (shown by red line)



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1old over the sleeves (as shown), so that the armholes meet

&ay second bodice piece on top, sew where shown in the diagram (indicated byred lines)



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Bull sleeves out, lining up edges

Sew the side seams:

Cew from sleeve end down side to bottom hem (as indicated by blue line)



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Sew the ne&) &asin":

1old over nec0-ole tomake the casing for your drawstring or elastic, sew down,leaving a hole for you to thread the drawstring or elastic through

$hread the elastic through, fasten ends of elastic, sew down opening

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Sew the slee,e &asin"s:

1old over sleee endsto make the casing for your drawstring or elastic, sewdown, leaving a hole for you to thread the draw-string or elastic through

The +inished louse:



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/deas +or +inishin":

@em around bottom, maybe add lace, ric-rac, ribbon or Droderie nglais

dd elastic around waist (at bottom)

dd elastic under bust and hem around bottom (like in the picture below) If you dothis, use bias binding or tape and sew it to inside of blouse under bust-line $hread

elastic through and secure &ength of elastic is measurement under bust minus %cm or 5;

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0y measurements (they may e handy +or you +or layout!:

)I got an end-roll of unprinted on white newsprint paper from our local newspaper forAUD$4.00. It is about 80 cm (!"# wide and can hae an%where between 0 meters(appro&imatel% ! %ards# and '00 or more meters (appro&imatel% '0 %ards# of paper on it.

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