Simplicity 2195 with a Peter Pan Collar

This darling blouse is Simplicity 2195, a 1950s pattern.

The original pattern has a convertible collar, but I chose to draft a Peter Pan collar instead. I really wanted to do piping around the collar and discovered it's quite difficult to make piping look good on those points!

I followed instructions from Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing. The hardest part was getting the length right so the edges of the collar met and laid flat. I think I'd go a hair shorter next time from what I did here. 

In the first version I did of this blouse, I had it tucked in for the photos, so you couldn't see the waist tuck detail. It gives it some nice shape. I also used Reproduction Feedsack cotton for this blouse, like the last time. 

The pattern has a monogrammed iron-on transfer, so I think I will have to make it once more to add that fun little detail. 

I've become such a pattern repeater! I never thought that would be true. I remember when I was a kid, I thought my great aunt was a little kooky because she used to like to buy multiples. If she found a dress she liked, she'd buy it in all sorts of colors and prints. I find I do the same with sewing now, so it must run in the family. There's just so many different ways you can make a pattern something new!