Art and the Datura blouse

Last sunday we had an art opening at our friends house and studio, it is an amazing place, where a lot of artists live together and they have some very cool art there! I decided it would be the perfect event for me to wear something which I made with my dyed fabric.
It was a very sunny day, which was awesome, but makes it difficult to photograph the white fabric..

These are his paintings, Thanks Ted Parker for letting me use them as a background!

So on sunday morning I sewed my first Deer and Doe pattern ever, yay! I've been keeping an eye on them ever since they first came out. In my mind I  had to sew other patterns first before I was allowed to purchase more patterns..  So after finishing a couple of patterns from Victory Patterns I put in my order and was super excited when they arrived in the mail.

Some views of the back

Excuse the wrinkles, but here you can see the colours better

I had three different colours of the same stretch cotton. One was a small piece of aqua, which I used to cover some cording. Then I had copper, which I wanted to use for the upper part. Finally I had a lot of the speckled colours, which I used for the lower half.

And, this pattern also needs some buttons, luckily I had some very special ones, which I got from my good friend Eef. She let me pick them out of her awesome button stash, which she got from her parents-neighbour-mother! (if I'm correct)

Special buttons

The pattern was lovely to sew, I found the instructions to be very clear and the only problem that I had was that the fabric stretched a little bit when I tried to attach the lower part to the upper front part.
So I had to take them apart again and line them up, starting my sewing in the middle.

Making new friends 

Oh yeah and I didn't trim the seam allowances properly on the upper part and since the cotton has a tendency to roll up you can kinda see it on the outside.. Maybe I'll unpick some of the stitches and correct that..

On to more important things..

Details:
Pattern: Deer and Doe, Datura blouse
Fabric: 1 m of stretch cotton which I dyed myself, see this post.
Time to finish garment: About 2 hours, less if I hadn't stretched the front bit the first time sewing it.
Notions: 5 buttons and some cording
Boyfriend's verdict: 8/10, he wrote in his text: Although painting is not your profession I think Mona Lisa would be happy to wear it! He likes that it looks progressive/different from standard fabrics :)
Make again: definetely! Maybe I'll try the neckline with the cut-outs the next time.