
I loved the sheerness and pattern of the white fabric.

For the jumper I made my first ever bound buttonholes. For guidance I used Wearing Histoy's own tutorial! Lauren makes gorgeous bound buttonholes.

I worked oh so hard to be utterly precise...


However the final product wasn't anything to brag about. Perhaps I'll do a better job next time?

In fact, I fiddled and puzzled quite a bit over the jumper, primarily because the fabric is a synthetic. My comfort zone is natural fiber...therefore the white blouse came out exactly as I had envisioned it! It was a dream to sew! Being cotton it was difficult to turn the tube for the ties, and I flipped them backwards or something. So I undid the machine stitching and whip stitched them by hand. I tend to do better with hand sewing than machine sewing. Nevertheless, most of the blouse and jumper are machine sewn.

For our 1930's history presentation I portrayed Winston Churchill's daughter, which was a lot of fun! I enjoyed using one of Churchill's books as a prop while posing for these photos!









Also while watching Wizard of Oz, I noted that Dorothy's dress is very much like this pattern, so I decided to enter this into the HSF fairytale challenge.
Now for the HSF details:

The Challenge: #6 Fairytale
Fabric: cotton and polyester
Pattern: Wearing History
Year:1930's
Notions: thread, buttons
How historically accurate is it? quite
Hours to complete: lots
First worn: history presentation
Total cost: $30