It is a fairly straight forward pattern for lightweight woven fabrics and utilizes French seams so to take care of finishing those potentially delicate seam allowances. Kennis, as usual with her Itch to Stitch designs walks you through all the steps so no need to worry if you're like me and feeling a little rusty on using French seams! The pattern is in the usual ITS size range from 00-20 with cup sizes A-DD.
The shoulders are delicately gathered on Kosice, using an elastic that is then completely enclosed and the v-necklines are finished using bias tape. With those features and the previously mentioned French seams, the insides of the garment are left neat and tidy! I always forget how much I love a good French seam - I really should use them more often instead of always relying on my serger for finishing!
I used a shirting weight cotton that I had left over in my stash from my Penny Dress a few summers ago for my shirt version and the dress version I've not got around to sewing yet I plan on using a lightweight almost peach skin feeling polyester type dress fabric. Can't wait to getting around to that one!! For my blouse I had a really hard time deciding on what buttons to use, but finally settled on some vintage ones I had in my stash. I had exactly the five I needed to finish up and thought it was fate. (that is until I was lazy and used my machine to stitch on the button and broke the last one clear in half by not being careful. Button tragedy!!!!! So don't look too closely... but one of these things is not like the other at all.)
Now's the time to snap up your copy of Kosice! It's on sale over at the ITS shop for the release week right now!
In other blog news, but still ITS, if you head on over to the Minerva Crafts Blogger Network today, you can check out my latest post on how I used the Samara Pants and the Crystal Cove Cami to create my faux jumpsuit of dreams!
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