Welcome to your March 2025 Dream Wardrobe.
UK SIZES 6-30
It’s officially blouse season here at Fabric Godmother! If there’s still a chill in the air, this blouse is perfect for pairing with your Sera Pants and Eliza Trench from previous boxes. As the weather gets warmer, you can wear it with or without a skirt. But make it with a stunning print, and you can elevate any outfit!
About the fabric:
Dominique Large Floral Cotton Lawn - Black
This super fun fabric is launching alongside this month’s Dream Wardrobe box and is a Fabric Godmother exclusive print. Available in two scales, Dominique floral print is a reproduction of a vintage print originally in the larger scale. We have recoloured and resized it to create these two lovely designs.
Dominique Ditsy Floral Cotton Lawn - Black
The Dominique Floral Cotton Lawn is on the website now. If you need to buy more for your projects, just click the links above.
As with most fabrics, we recommend you prewash to remove any dressing and allow for pre-shrinking. A cool wash will be fine; just make sure the temperature you use to prewash is the temperature at which you plan to wash the final garment. You don’t want your final garment to shrink.
This fabric would also work well for:
Fabric Godmother - Fleur Blouse
Matchy Matchy - Wave Float Top
About the pattern:
Paulette is dripping with romance and elegance. Pair it with a skirt or jeans; you’ve got a stylish outfit. The blouse’s fitted cut has princess seams with ruffles on both sides of the bodice front, extending over the shoulders and around the back. Paulette has an elegant standing collar and a proper shirt cuff!
We have included enough fabric to make the whole blouse in a large-scale print and 50cm of the ditsy print if you want to make a contrasting frill. For our frill, we have doubled over the frill width wise so the underside of the fabric does not show. Please check our sewing notes for more details.
The Instructions can be found below:
Notions:
- Matching Thread (Included)
- Fusing max 45cm
- 1.5cm buttons x 11 we used: Vampire Buttons 15mm
The Paulette Blouse would also look great in:
Liberty Fabrics Tana Lawn® Neon Lord Thorpe - Multi
Joy Blooms Cotton Lawn - Black
About your gift:
Want to create super neat buttonholes?
This super handy cutter from Clover makes opening buttonholes or small cuts on fabrics easy. It produces clean and perfect buttonholes and is much more precise than using a seam ripper, which can be risky.
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Happy sewing, Josie xxx
Sewing Notes
We have included 50cm of Dominique Ditsy Floral Cotton Lawn - Black for the frill. You can use this or the Large Print version; there is enough of either.
To cut this, you need to change the grainline so it runs along the width of the fabric, not the length.
For our version, we doubled the frill so you won't see any of the underside of the fabric. To do this, just cut double the number of frill pattern pieces. You'll have to use the larger scale for the underside of the frill. We then stitched together the frill edge and understitched on the underside. Then, we turned out, pressed, and sewed the frill in as per the instructions.
We also used the buttonhole cutter gift to create neat buttonholes. Just use it on a cutting mat or chopping board. Position it in the sewn buttonhole and press down firmly to cut through. Be careful with this, as the tool edge is very sharp.