Hello! I’ve finished a few new things over the past few days…
First up, a new ivory blouse for myself. This is the new Fibremood Georgie blouse, and it’s quite an interesting design and construction technique that I haven’t really come across before, namely a series of very deep pleats in the neckline and sleeves. These are bound down with a narrow bias strip. The raglan sleeves also have deep pleats going into those cuffs.
If I was going to be picky I think I would have chosen to cut the cuffed sleeves a little longer, and it’s also quite a short blouse overall. However I do really like the finished blouse.
I found a short length of ivory muslin in my stash, which was lucky! because it was perfect for the floaty style of this blouse; and for the buttons I went with some fun bee buttons, also from the stash. Aren’t they cute?!
I’m wearing them here with my Closet Core patterns Sasha trousers and my clogs made using a kit from Leather Needle Thread. I really should make some new trousers; I don’t really have that many, and those that I do have are mostly quite old by now.
I also finished up my April knitting project, again in the knick of time! I literally cast this off about half an hour ago and took these extremely quick and slightly dodgy pictures, but at least I got it done within the month! I’ll take some better pictures when the weather is suitably colder and post them in here later.
It’s a very simple neck warmer, made using a very bobbly pink/apricot yarn from the very large stash I inherited from Mum when she did her cleanup. I had plans for something a bit more interesting; however when I was in Japan I didn’t have the time to knit on the trains that I thought I would. I came home having achieved basically no knitting at all, and had to whip up something in the small amount of time I’ve had since we returned. I’m going to try to be more organised in May and produce something a bit more exciting.
Speaking of; tomorrow me-made May begins again! I will be joining in once again, but only on instagram this year and maybe on my TikTok account, if I feel like it. Haha, gone are the days we used to document it all on our blogs, or over on Flickr! Feels like forever ago now. I will likely do a roundup here at the end of the month.
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