We firmly believe that anyone can sew anything with patience and perseverance, but sometimes it helps to understand how time-consuming or challenging a pattern will be to sew. Here's how we rate the difficulty of our patterns:
Beginner (⭑): Appropriate for a true beginner with simple style lines and details, quick to sew with no closures.
Confident Beginner (⭑⭑): Achievable for beginners who are willing to learn a new skill, may include more design features and techniques (ie. zippers, buttons, facings, etc). Relatively quick to sew.
Intermediate (⭑⭑⭑): More details and style lines, may include interesting details like a zipper fly or topstitching, projects can take 6+ hours to sew.
Advanced (⭑⭑⭑⭑): Still achievable for most sewists, but patterns will include more pieces and more details, and can take 8+ hours to sew.
Challenging(⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑): Complex, skill heavy projects like tailoring and bra-making. Again, achievable for most sewists but be prepared to spend 10+ hours on these types of projects.
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Inspired by the Edwardian era of the 1900s, Emmeline is a beautiful and romantic blouse that lets your creativity shine – customize it with heritage sewing details like pintucks and lace insertion, or celebrate its beautiful details with special fabrics. Featuring a band collar, back yoke, and gathered back, Emmeline is loosely fitted with a gently shaped hem. With a modern take on the puff sleeve, Emmeline is gathered at the cap before tapering at the wrist with inverted box pleats and a hidden facing. The blouse is closed with button loops along the front placket for a vintage touch.
We suggest fine, lightweight wovens like cotton poplin, voile, and batiste. For a slightly heavier blouse, you can also use chambray, broadcloth and linen.
I love the idea of this product but was disappointed in its functionality. Over the length of the buttonhole spacer there is a difference in 1/4” in the buttonhole spacing. I want my buttonholes more accurate than that.
