Green March Blouse

I know it's not March anymore, but I made this blouse in March and it just reminds me of lush green March fields and Irish celebrations. The blouse is very summery and definitely unfit to be worn in March, so I haven't had a chance to wear it yet. But I think it will come in useful when the sweltering heat of summer sets in. I'll just have to be patient. Here I'm wearing the blouse with my black wool skirt.

I drafted the blouse myself. The blouse has princess seams and sort of a shawl collar. The collar was meant to look a little different but I didn't have enough fabric and didn't think it through enough before cutting my shawl piece. The shawl should have been long enough to go around the entire neckline but ended up being too small, so I left it open in the back and added a decorative button from my stash to keep it in place.

The fabric is from a local fleamarket I went to last summer and only cost about a Euro or so. The fabric has little heads woven in. I think it's supposed to be Geisha heads but some look a bit like sad Virginia Woolf faces.

I have no clue what the fabric is made of but it's a little sheer so I chose to do two layers. There is also some stretch to the fabric which made it difficult to sew with, but since the blouse is still a bit wide around my waist I could sew it without a zipper or buttons. I experimented a little with the styling of the blouse and tried it with a belt to give it more of a Vintage feel.

Yes, it was very sunny. Maybe I should have worn sunglasses. Happy Easter!