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How to Fake a Vintage Embroidered Blouse - Simplicity Bloggers Circle.

10/7/2015

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Using #sewingrevolution upcycling techniques to cheat your way to a vintage blouse.

PictureLeonie and I having fun on Create and Craft TV
If you follow my Instagram and facebook posts as well as my live demonstrations on Create and Craft TV you will know that I love an upcycle project!

Transforming old items into something completely new is a buzz,  a little challenge if you like. My favourite #sewingrevolution workshops are my sewing clinic’s where I never know what the attendees are going to bring or want to make until on the day. 


I have to think on my feet and come up with several project ideas using only the materials we have to hand. It’s exhausting but very rewarding work as the tutor. I love teaching people how to look at old items differently while they are also learning new sewing skills. Showing that you can make wonderful and unique items with things that you were going to throw out or taking those precious items that you cannot bare to get rid of but just don’t know what to do with it. 

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It’s always a special moment when a person bring something very personal, like old baby clothes or their mothers old coat. 
At first it is very reluctant to start cutting into the item and it will always means a trip down memory lane. So I feel very privileged when people tell me and the group their family stories.  It seems to give them a little more courage to get hacking knowing that these memories will no longer be in the wardrobe hidden away, but transformed into an item that will be used and loved again.

Upcycling doesn’t have to be tricky though, I love to combine new fabrics and commercial patterns with elements of old items especially when wanting to get a vintage look. 

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My Mom had a blouse that she used to call it her ‘cheese cloth top’ and she lived in it. So much so that it completely disintegrated. I would kill for that top now it was a lovely light cotton with hand embroidery around the neck coupled with a little lace detail, very Fleetwood Mac/ Stevie Nicks, very hippy chic.

Simplicity have a pattern which 100% reminds me of my mom in this top when I was a kid. It’s the New look pattern 6027 which I thought would be the perfect addition to the simplicity bloggers circle as well as the foundation for my sewing project. As soon as I saw this pattern I knew I wanted to recreate my mom's top. Problem is I don’t have time to hand embroider the fabric, so I thought I’d do an upcycle cheat.
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After scouring the local charity shops, I came across several different types of Table clothes, Doilies and Handkerchiefs with either printed, machine or hand embroidery detail. Just perfect and all around 50p to a £1 an item, I purchased several as I was sure they would come in for other projects.

In the end I used a medium sized Doily which was about 1/2 a metre squared to give me the hand embroidery detail on the front of the blouse. It had cute pink flowers and also a yellow and orange seed head, which arched. I wanted to take advantage of this shape for the front of the blouse. This was the first Vintage cheat. 
I then removed the cotton lace edging off a different table cloth by unpicking it carefully and then added this to the sleeve at the elbow - Vintage cheat number two.


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Vintage Cheat One - Use embroidered items to add detail.
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Vintage Cheat Two - Add a little lace.
For a third Vintage cheat, I did take it a little further and used a large white cotton bed sheet for my main fabric because it was a wonderful quality, had obviously been washed several times as it was super soft and again only £2 from the charity shop; A complete bargain! There was so much fabric that I think I can make another top out of it, which is great news as the pattern has five variations.

So there you have it. Add a little vintage inspiration to your makes by upcycling those little elements at a fraction of the cost and also time! 
Start your own #sewingrevolution makes and don't forget to send me pictures! 
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Fake Vintage Embroidered Blouse. #sewingrevolution.
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25/7/2015 06:21:28 am

Do you do this as a service please? I would dearly love an antique blousy thing to be made wearable .... Kindest regards, Sue Washington

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29/6/2017 06:03:43 am

Vintage blouse gives a better look because its look is also awesome. I like these type of outfits so much. I also visit at IMAIMA, which is a famous clothing website. So I'm giving my time to search the quality clothing.

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6/11/2017 05:16:00 pm

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6/11/2017 05:18:26 pm

Have no text to check? Haven't any version to check? Click "Select Samples."With the come back of maximalist designs, we tend to are noticing an improvement of decorated bohemian garments. As lovers of something female, we’re all regarding it.

One item notably has been skyrocketing in quality among the vintage searching community and has our hearts all excited. Usually tagged because the Hungarian, Romanian, Mexican, or Ukrainian decorated the shirt, these tortuous camp-made beauties are designed with extreme care and skill.

The work of the shirt is breezy and light-weight, and also the embroidery usually options vibrantly rib flowers around the neck, sleeves, and hem.

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26/8/2019 12:56:01 pm

There were so many things that I've learned from you already, and now there is new once again! Making a fake Vintage Embroidered Blouse was an idea I never thought existed. But huge thanks to you for teaching us on how to do it, because now I know how to make one. Some of you may be raising your eyebrows and suggesting that it would be more ideal to buy a new and authentic blouse, which is a valid idea. But I believe that fashion is a personal thing. Always follow your own style!

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