Tiffany Aching but 1920s

The fabric is viscose twill, which has a lovely feel and drape but is slipperier than the cotton I’ve used before. The blue pattern was from a stash sale but I bought the turquoise new. The pattern is 3047 by Mrs Depew (and the hat is from a Bernadette Banner video). 1920s patterns have limited accompanying instructions so I use a 1920s book a lot called ‘Better Dressmaking’ by Ruth Wyeth Spears.

I had to widen and lengthen the pattern slightly, but the main challenges were the new techniques. I learnt how to replicate a picot hem with a hemming foot on a modern machine. It was interesting sewing the neck slit so the gap was minimal but had enough seam left to reinforce holding the rouleau button loops in place. It was also the first time I had to turn a piece of fabric that small. I am pleased with the neck opening considering how fiddly it was. I have sewn cuffs once before, and I find them awkward. This had the placket on the seam and most instruction have a separate slit. A few messy attempts later I eventually figured a way that worked by cutting off the seam allowance so it reflected a cut slit slightly better

I had trouble sewing the ‘V’ shape in the seam where the sleeve pieces meet. I had help on the Facebook page with the useful hint to top stitch the pieces together rather than sew right sides together.