Fashion a habitual Victorian blouse from an elderly shirt with a sewing mechanism.
With a infrequent yards of ruffle trim, you can create an decrepit shirt into a Victorian blouse. Add eyelet ruffles to a blouse and span it with a caucasian cotton skirt and a Broad pastel satin sash for an outfit for a summer church social. Add brown ruffles to an ecru shirt to bring about a blouse to wear with a brown velvet skirt for a winter outfit suitable for college or visiting.
Instructions
1. Fold up the shirt collar and chop it off with scissors, leaving the neck band in country.
Pin the 1-inch trim encompassing the cuffs in the alike expedient.4. Intersect the 2-inch ruffled trim in half.
2. Pin 1-inch-wide ruffled trim all over the neck band. Turn in 1/2 inch on Everyone stop of the trim to effect a finished string.3.
Fold down 1/2 inch on the foot of both pieces of trim. Fold one so that the untried limit is on the back when the ruffle is on the conscientious side and the other so that the coarse path is on the back when the ruffle is on the left side. Sew 1/4 inch from the fold to occupation the fold in city. Bent the other end of the trim to prevent unraveling.
5. Unbutton the shirt and pin the pieces of the large, ruffled trim down the front of the shirt, on each side of the placket. The ruffled edges should point toward the sleeves and the folded down raw edges should be hidden on the back of the trim at the top of the placket.
6. Sew along both sides of the straight part of the trim to the blouse, removing the pins as you go.
