The skirt consists of three panels with attached ruffle. It can be worn either with the matching blouse or with another of matching colour. There's lace trim at the top of the ruffle, the skirt closes with hook and eye at the back. When attaching a ruffle to a smooth piece of fabric, divide each of it into an equal number of parts, then pin together at the measured intervals and gather the fabric evenly between them. Otherwise with ruching of eight metres or so, you'll inevitably end up with an uneven dispersion of fabric around the hem.
The blouse pattern is a 1970s burda-pattern which fits the style perfectly. I only had to adjust the length of the sleeves a bit and narrow the neckline, as I wanted to have a proper Victorian stand-up collar. And as I had time to finish everything before wearing it for the first time, this blouse even has proper buttons and buttonholes! The visible buttons are shank buttons, the ones that vanish beneath the skirt's waistband are flat ones. I still had mother-of-pearl buttons of both sorts in my stock which fit the cream base colour perfectly. Decoration is also some lace trim along the collar and the yoke, and I even had time for a quickly embroidered initial of the character's name on the button border.
Lovely fabric, where can I see the whole dress?
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