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The Meadow Sewalong is a step-by-step video series designed to guide you through sewing the Meadow, from choosing your size to finishing the final details.
In this sewalong, Erica walks you through each stage of the process in short, focused lessons. You can move through the videos at your own pace, pause as needed, or skip ahead if you’re already comfortable with certain steps.
The Meadow blouse has the perfect blend of classic charm and modern flair. This pullover blouse features a dramatic ruffle collar that adds a touch of whimsy to your wardrobe. It’s designed with a straight fit and a high round neckline that frames the face and adds a sophisticated detail.
To follow along, you’ll need the Meadow Pattern. Seamwork members can download it as part of their membership, and non-members can purchase it individually in the shop.
Getting Started
Fabric recommendations: Look for lightweight or medium-weight woven fabrics such as cotton lawn, cotton gauze, voile, chambray, swiss dot, rayon challis, linen, rayon crepe, and silk.
Fabric qualities to look for: Look for the drape you’d like to wear. If you pick a fabric with a heavy, fluid drape, the ruffled collar and sleeves will also drape nicely over your body. If you choose a fabric with less drape and a crisper hand, the collar will stand away from the shirt, creating a more dramatic silhouette.
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Prepare to Sew
This lesson covers all the basic things you need to know to get started with this sewalong. If you’re a beginner, this will be really helpful to watch!
If you feel like you already know how to get your pattern and fabric ready for sewing, go ahead and skip to the next lesson and you'll learn to do some helpful fitting adjustments for the Meadow.
You're going to learn how to:
- Select a pattern and reference its skill level
- Select a size
- Prepare patterns and fabric
- Cut and mark fabric
Fitting Adjustments
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to adjust the shoulder width on the Meadow blouse.
And here are some additional fitting resources if you need them:
- Understanding ease will help you pick the right size or sizes. This tutorial will teach you all about design and wearing ease.
- Follow this tutorial to lengthen and shorten a sewing pattern.
- If you need to adjust the armhole depth, use this tutorial.
- If you want to blend between sizes, use this video tutorial.
- To adjust the shoulder slope, follow this tutorial.
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Here are fitting tutorials for the shoulders and sleeves. - Here are tutorials for wide or narrow shoulder adjustments. If you adjust the shoulder, be sure to also move the neckline so that the ruffle hits where intended.
- Here are tutorials for small bust adjustments and full bust adjustments.
- If you prefer videos, there are bust adjustment videos in the Hansie sewalong here.
We created a free downloadable PDF called the Four Height Zones to help you gather the information you need to make adjustments to your pattern where you need it. We recommend printing it out and writing your height measurements on it to keep in your sewing journal.
Compare these measurements to the corresponding landmarks on your pattern pieces, and you'll know how much you need to shorten or lengthen that part of the pattern.
Sewing Instructions
The PDF instructions will be your main guide as you work through this pattern, but we've created this video to walk you through the trickiest steps in detail. If you need help on a step not shown in this video, check out the Community Group Sew, where other Seamworkers and staff are ready to help out!
The trickiest steps for this pattern are:
- Attach neck ruffle
- Attach neck bias
