Sewing a 1940s Blouse from '40s Daffodil Print Silk

[@magicalaurie]

As a costume designer, I'm so happy to hear you wanting to show your clothes authentically. More people need education about this. Clothes need to look like real people wear them. So important and makes all the difference. You are doing the real work! So refreshing. Thank you!

[@iansaunders6983]

'Clothes need to look like real people wear them' I love this comment. So much of the fashion world seems unrealistic and impractical.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

I’m really pleased that you support this idea - it means a lot, especially coming from a costume designer. I wear clothes made from vintage patterns, and sometimes true vintage, every day and have dogs to walk, housework to do etc. I want to wear the clothes I love and hopefully inspire others to enjoy their clothes too, not feel they have to be kept in their wardrobes for ‘best’. Or for people to feel they must reach impossible standards or give up entirely and reach for the leggings! I was so pleased to read your comment - thank you very much! 💐

[@jodywarren54]

It's a lovely blouse, the fabric is beautiful. I also know very well what it's like to go out thinking you look ok, go around all day thinking you still look ok then get home and realise you've been walking around all day with your hair looking a fright with wrinkled clothes and stuff!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much, I’m really pleased you like the blouse. I have to admit I’m rather taken with it myself!! And I’m glad it’s not just me who feels like that when I get home and see myself in the mirror. My eye make up is the worst. It’s amazing how much difference a millimetre down from where it started out makes! 😆 Thank you for watching and your support too! 🌼

[@ariettasvintagelife]

The blouse is so beautiful! I love this pattern and even though it has a lot of pretty details, it doesn't look to hard to sew. I know what you mean about clothes looking perfect in glamour pics, but real life is not that perfect. Clothes should be shown in real life with all their creases and wrinckles... And again how stunning is your area, everywhere you it's so picturesque! 🥰🥰🥰

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Arietta 💕 I’m guessing you’re super busy with your new home 💐 Yes, I always like to see what clothes look like doing real stuff, not just twirling! Another reason why I’m looking forward to your 50s overalls! I’m back to London at the end of this week so hoping to fit in one more picturesque filming before I’m back in the crowds! Whenever you are ready let’s do the petticoats (though no rush of course) 🌼💖

[@karinbaird2499]

Such a perfect Easter ensemble 🤩 Thank you for showing lots of posing from many angles so we can see how it fits and wears!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Yes, I thought daffodils for Easter! 🐣 I’m so pleased you like the reveal footage. I know it went on for rather a long time! I love watching all the other vintage sewing KZbinrs and always want to see more of the finished makes. The reveals tend to be over before I’m ready. I think it’s because, after a minute or two posing, it’s easy not to know what to do with yourself! Anyway, I hoped I wouldn’t be the only person who wanted to see more of the finished thing having spent at least 10 mins watching it being made! 😁 Thank you so much for watching another episode! 🌼

[@lesliejacobs3605]

This is gorgeous!! I love the vibrant colors of the silk as well as your details- the daffodil touch to the sleeves is so much fun.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Leslie! I’m so pleased you appreciate my daffodil flower sleeves too. I love the fabric so much. I’m incredibly pleased the blouse worked out given the wonderful fabric. I think I’ll wear it lots. Like daffodils themselves it’s a happy blouse! 🌼

[@Daisycreatesglam]

What a beautiful blouse Samantha and in the perfect fabric. I especially love the front panel detail and this is making me want to sew that style. I'm off to have a look for vintage silk - though I'll probably need swearing when sewing it!! And so nice to see your everyday 40s ladies - great addition. Xxx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much Linda 💕 I honestly love this pattern. Even though I should be sewing different things for my channel I really want to just sew two more of this blouse now! I’m thinking Liberty tana lawn for my next ones. The everyday 40s ladies had rumpled clothes and slightly frizzy hair - just like me! It proved to me I can get vintage style right after all! 😂 xxx

[@Daisycreatesglam]

@Samanthalovestosew well its so lovely I can see why you want to sew more if it. I'm definitely fitting in with my frizzy hair but can't actually see frizz on you. You look delightful 😊 xxx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@Daisycreatesglam Thank you Linda (though believe me the fight with frizz is ever ongoing! 😆) 💗

[@amauryy4417]

Lovely daffodil shirt and outfit.....and you faced the pattern essential missing piece curse with smile and efficiency ...

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Ah yes, the essential missing pattern piece curse! That is a very good way to put it. Such a tricky little collar, such an easy little pattern piece to be lost (especially from a disintegrating envelope!) Thank goodness vintage pattern illustrations always include a line drawing of the back! And thank you very much, I’m so pleased you like the outfit! 🌼

[@missterryvintage]

What a lovely creation in a gorgeous fabric. :)

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much. Donna Flower’s vintage fabrics are so beautiful and this was a particularly special one. Thank goodness the blouse worked! It’s definitely a happy blouse and I know I’m going to wear it a lot. I’m so pleased you like it too 🌼

[@MichelleSMV]

What a beautiful blouse! The print is breathtaking and I love the little daffodil frill you added and the space left for brooches. That’s such a great idea! Very floral look out and about indeed!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Michelle! I’ve met a lovely one-woman enterprise fabric dealer who knows just what fabrics appeal to me (so no scope for giving up the day job! 😆) She came up with this gorgeous early 40s daffodil print silk. So pretty and so cheerful - it’s so lovely to hear that you like it too! 🌼🌼🌼

[@MichelleSMV]

@@Samanthalovestosew that is the perfect set up to get great fabrics!

[@LostinTimeWithKatie]

I love it! 💛 I was impressed with your make do collar when you discovered the pattern piece was missing! I definitely see the resemblance of the sleeves to daffodils. 🌼 It’s fun seeing you out and about in your whole ensemble. That is so true how the way we leave the house isn’t the way we come back to it 😂

[@Samanthalovestosew]

I have made all sorts of (slightly dismaying!) discoveries about my appearance since I started filming 😆 I’m so pleased that you see the resemblance between my sleeves and daffodil flowers. It’s subtle but it’s there!! 🌼 The thing that really appealed to me about the pattern was the scalloped collar so how typical that that was the piece that was missing 🙄 However, I am now in love with the construction of the blouse (the pullover the head, false button design does make things easier!!) Thank you very much for all your encouragement Katie 🌼🌼💐

[@killerkitschvintagelizzie]

So beautiful and delightful! When I have only a small amount of fabric, I hold my breath the entire time I'm cutting out!!! xx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

And then I discovered I hadn’t cut out the collar pieces 😆 Having breathed a sigh of relief and congratulated myself on a job well done with the cutting out. I should know by now that, in the sewing process, there is always some kind of unexpected setback!! Thank you very much Lizzie! 🌼xx

[@killerkitschvintagelizzie]

@@Samanthalovestosew that happened to me a few years ago, when I was cutting out a blouse. I forgot to cut the collar as well. Thankfully, I had just enough fabric to get the collar pieces out. LOL though in the end, if I had to, I could have just used another similar fabric and called it a design feature. xx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@killerkitschvintagelizzie I considered adding a lace collar as a design feature 😆 xx

[@killerkitschvintagelizzie]

@@Samanthalovestosew It would have been perfect!

[@lenorerhodes8110]

Beautiful blouse Samantha. The fabric is adorable. Loved your photo shoot, your whole outfit (poor feet) are perfect together. Congrats to your mum doing a great job videoing. Daffodils are one of my favourite flowers, love them, so right and happy. Xx ❤️🌺

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Lenore 🌼 I got the fabric at a recent vintage fabric fair that I went to with my mum. Donna Flower is lovely (and so are her fabrics!). She lives quite near me. Daffodils are such happy flowers aren’t they?! I passed on your compliment about the videoing to my mum today. She laughed but she does love a compliment. The irony (which she knows) is that she has spent her life known as the worst photographer ever (missing heads, landslide angles, thumb partially obscuring the picture - she could manage all that in just one photo). So it is an irony that she now has an (admittedly unpaid) job as a videographer in her 80s and is doing rather well at it. It shows you never know!! 💗🌼xx

[@lenorerhodes8110]

I think mum has found her niche. Xx ❤️🌺

[@felinetherapy4782]

Beautiful. The skirt is stunning as well.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much! It was a lucky chance the blouse and skirt went together. Definitely my new favourite outfit and it’s lovely to have it appreciated. Thank you for watching too 🌼

[@alenamoss8146]

Very beautiful blouse and skirt. Also your village looks so lovely.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much. I have to admit, completely immodestly, that I am rather pleased with the outfit! You know how some clothes just feel more ‘you’ than others?! When, one day, it stops raining and who knows when that will be, I think I will wear it a lot. The villages around here are pretty and everyone covers them in flowers, which is lovely 🌼

[@laurazeman]

Hi Samantha! That fabric is gorgeous and the top turned out beautifully! I've never been very good with the top stitching method of construction. Things always turn out misaligned and completely skewed for me. Such a nice touch with the glass brooch! ❤ Very clever daffodil sleeves! Such beautiful scenery! 😍 I'd share photos of my local scenery with you but Joshua trees, tumbleweeds and dirt arent very picturesque. 😝 Thank you for sharing!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Hi Laura! Oh you do paint a picture 😄 Mind you I haven’t always lived here. I grew up in the middle of London - I still visit my dad there but it is so overcrowded now. Well I’d like to say I’ve worn my daffodil blouse lots but, incredibly, the torrential rain continues every day. I don’t really mind rain but it does mean a home afflicted by muddy paws as well as dog hair! I have a patchwork skirt coming up this week, which I’ve been working on for …. Oooh, somewhere btw 2-5 years (who’s counting?!) After that I shall accept the rain may never stop and tackle a house dress 😆 Thank you for watching another episode! ❤️

[@linziharvey2518]

So pretty! That yellow really suits you, you look fab!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Linzi 🌼 I have to confess (with no modesty whatsoever) I was rather pleased with the colours of the blouse. I think it’s because they’re muted, golden yellow shades. I suspect things might go very wrong for me with cooler, brighter yellows!! 😆

[@BeverleyButterfly]

Oh my goodness I love this fabric it is so pretty and so you xx

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Beverley (I do love my florals!) 🌼xx

[@BeverleyButterfly]

@@Samanthalovestosew they suit your personality so much too though xx

[@rowanhughes8682]

😅 I spotted the heels sinking into the soggy grass!!! Oh how I've suffered that! So so many times!! How beautifully that gorgeous silk fluttered in the breeze! It's a lovely blouse pattern 🌼🌼🌼 and well done on drafting a collar piece! The hemline on your skirt looks perfect with it 💛 Really enjoyed this video, your humour (as always, you're a natural presenter!) rummaging through your antique haberdashery, the dogs playing tug o' War, selecting brooches and the clips of rain, then sun, then more rain 😂 So good 👌 I called in to the tearoom at Selworthy not long ago, picturesque from the outside but Ooof 😖 awful on the inside! Gutted out and decorated from Homebase and Dunelm. Not a clue! And the chap running it couldn't be less suited to hospitality in any way, shape or form! Dire! Miserable! 😂

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you so much Rowan 🌼 … and for turning up to watch another episode! Oh my feet did get cold and wet but there’s nothing I won’t do for my art! Dunelm. Why oh why???! 🙄 This area is awash with cheap but pretty and interesting vintage and antique stuff. But there is a Dunelm in Taunton. A friend made me go there with her once. Time. Stood. Still. How anyone can want to spend hours in a place where everything is … BLAND I don’t know. And the chap had a personality to match! Oh dear. I’m doing some filming in Dunster tomorrow. I did Wells (lovely) the other week with my mum and her friend behind my proper Sony camera. I had to laugh when going through the footage. Getting hold of a proper camera must have affected them. At the start of every clip I heard “and… ROLL” Not with irony but total seriousness, which made it even funnier. Steven Spielberg better watch out 😆

[@rowanhughes8682]

@@Samanthalovestosew 'and roll' 🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh how funny!! I love it. Aren't you lucky to have such a dedicated film crew? I think the outdoor presentation of your garments is going down very well! Yes, I read all the comments 😆 haaa!!! What am I like 🤭

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@rowanhughes8682 We always did read everyone’s comments, especially each others! The outdoor filming might wane in winter but, so long as it’s mild(ish) I won’t let a few raindrops 🤣 put me off. As it gets more crowded, though, I don’t know what people will make of me prancing around in vintage dresses followed by old ladies wielding a vlogging camera “and roll!!” 😂

[@rowanhughes8682]

@@Samanthalovestosew 🤣🤣🤣 I'm dying!!!! One day I'll be Bush Lurking in some leafy shrubbery and can glean director's tips on film making 👍🏻 Then we'll head off for warm scones and lashings of ginger beer at the tearoom and see who can get the po-faced tea overlord to crack a hospitable smile !!

[@Samanthalovestosew]

@@rowanhughes8682 Yay! 🙌 And if we can’t soften him up I know a cafe in Dunster (we’ll duck the cctv watched by all the villagers though not sure we can escape the pensioner film makers!) that does a cream tea with the most delicious ginger scones 😋

[@KlingonPrincess]

I see the daffodil sleeves 🤗 Such a pretty make. I've not come across the top stitch construction called for in this one. I'm intrigued.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Yay 😃 I’m so pleased you see the daffodil sleeves. I’m not deluded then 😆 Yes, the top stitch construction makes the blouse so easy to put together. As you can see exactly what you’re doing it’s easier to get everything nice and symmetrical. Thank you so much for your support! 🌼

[@user-hx6wt9dh7w]

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[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you! 🥰🌼💐

[@iansaunders6983]

I would like to ditto magicalaurie. It took me about 2 hours pausing and starting to watch your video. You have wonderful facial expressions, everytime I came back to your paused video there was one waiting for me. At what stage did you discover the missing collar part of the pattern? Samantha I liked your heeled shoes of course they are not meant for standing in fields (I loved the thatched rooves) but they really suit you. (Only my opinion) You and your blouse looked wonderful. 😍

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much Ian! I only realised I didn’t have a collar when the time came to sew it on. I’m sure I should have spotted that it was missing before. I was too busy congratulating myself about how all the pattern pieces fitted on the fabric to notice I didn’t actually have all the pattern pieces. My brother once said I reminded him of Rowan Atkinson. I was initially rather flattered, thinking he meant my wit and comic timing. He didn’t. He meant my facial expressions. Perhaps not so flattering! The field was one of those that look grassy and smooth. Yet, when trodden on, one started to sink … Thank you very much for watching another episode! 🌼

[@Catsface99]

The blouse is beautiful. I like the yellow daffodils and it was paired nicely with your scalloped skirt. Thanks for sharing. Oh and your dogs are so cute.

[@Samanthalovestosew]

Thank you very much! I’ve had the scalloped skirt for a while. It’s wonderful when things go together as if planned - when really it was luck! The dogs - who currently have me pinned into the corner of the sofa where they are stretched out - say thank you very much too! 🌼🐾