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Josephine Blouse & Tunic

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About The Josephine Pattern

A versatile pleated blouse or tunic for woven fabrics, Josephine is a great project for the confident beginner sewist who is ready to add some skills and variety to their garment-sewing repertoire. The pattern includes six women’s sizes with two front bodices to fit either A/B or C/D cup sizes. View A is a tunic with full sleeves, elastic cuffs and optional belt. View B is a blouse with gathered sleeves with separate cuff and a back elastic casing. View C is sleeveless with a center front slit and side vents. All necklines are finished with bias binding.

The Josephine pattern is available only in digital format.

Yardage and Materials

• woven fabric (see chart below for amounts)
• 1/2 yd 1/4″ wide elastic (View A, elastic cuff option only)
• 1/2 yd 3/8” wide elastic (View B only)
• coordinating thread

Recommended fabrics

Woven light to medium weight fabrics such as cotton lawn, voile, double gauze, poplin, rayon challis, shirting, shot cotton, and silk.

This pattern is featured in the following blog posts

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Cleo + Josephine
Cleo + Josephine

As the weather warms up, I'm excited about this combination of Cleo and Josephine. I've noticed that when I design a pattern, it's often because I have a hole in my wardrobe...

Josephine with Tassel Ties
Josephine with Tassel Ties

How long have you been reading this blog? Long enough to remember how much I love a good bit of pattern improv? Maybe you love it too! The desire to mix...

Bias Binding Tutorials
Bias Binding Tutorials

There are lots of ways to sew a bias binding to finish a garment, so I've put together a series of tutorials to walk you through three of my favorite options! You'll see...

Bias Binding Tutorial (french method)
Bias Binding Tutorial (french method)

This is the third and final tutorial in my bias binding series. Many of my women's sewing patterns, including the Gemma tank shown in this post, use bias binding to finish the neckline and armholes. There...

Bias Binding Tutorial (topstitch method)
Bias Binding Tutorial (topstitch method)

This is the second tutorial in my bias binding series. Many of my women's sewing patterns, including the Gemma tank shown in this post, use bias binding to finish the neckline and armholes. There are...

Bias Binding Tutorial (traditional method)
Bias Binding Tutorial (traditional method)

I've been excited to share a few bias binding tutorials with you ever since I released my Gemma tank sewing pattern (which also happens to be the tank shown in these...

How to make bias binding
How to make bias binding

Making your own bias binding is something that is so easy to do! A number of my sewing patterns, including Washi, Ruby, Josephine, and my most recent pattern, Gemma, use bias binding to finish...

Luna + JOSEPHINE
Luna + JOSEPHINE

Let me introduce my studio assistant, Melissa! I had a fun photo shoot with her the other day.Update: Luna Pants Pattern is now available!   buy nowWhile we put the finishing...

Josephine Fall Roundup
Josephine Fall Roundup

I've been seeing some great Josephines on blogs and social media lately. When I realized they were all putting me in mind of cooler weather, I figured it was time...

Bust Dart Adjustment: How to shorten or lengthen a dart
Bust Dart Adjustment: How to shorten or lengthen a dart

Jess is here today to show you how to adjust the length of a bust dart if it's too long or too short. When we put together a (pretty comprehensive, I...

Frock Frock
Frock Frock

I'm so pleased to be a part of the Frock Blog Tour today! Also: a little surprised I'm the first one to use "Frock Frock" as a blog post title. Well, finders...

Josephine with sleeves, BABY.
Josephine with sleeves, BABY.

I would love to think that people read my blog simply for the merits of my (always perfectly and never excessively punctuated or parenthesie'd, and of course I never make up words...

Josephine Blouse with release tucks
Josephine Blouse with release tucks

Sooooooo it turns out that not much of my extensive handmade wardrobe from BEFORE I had Hugo is fitting so great right now. Much of that clothing is either not...

Summer is for Josephines and Rubies
Summer is for Josephines and Rubies

Some hot and steamy days are ahead of us, so I wanted to share some of my favorite summery renditions of my Josephine and Ruby patterns.Even though we released the Josephine...

Josephine Tester Roundup
Josephine Tester Roundup

One of the most important part of pattern production is the testing phase. Here's a roundup so you can see all the sweet versions of the Josephine Sewing Pattern blouses...

Josephine Sewing Pattern is here!
Josephine Sewing Pattern is here!

I'm so excited to announce the release of my Josephine Sewing Pattern! We've been working hard to get this pattern ready and I hope you'll enjoy sewing it up! One...

Am giant festive candy cane
Am giant festive candy cane

I have been sick in bed all weekend with flu, but I'm feeling a bit better today so I'm propping the ol' bones up in bed to post some pics...

My handmade maternity style
My handmade maternity style

Happy Monday everyone! Today I thought I'd show you how the ol' handmade wardrobe is translating into maternity clothing. I'm now about 5 months along, so the baby bump is...

Pale Pink Josephine Top
Pale Pink Josephine Top

Here's a new version of the Josephine Top without sleeves! This one has a seam up the front with a slit at the neckline and added slits at the side...

Josephine in Yellow Double Gauze
Josephine in Yellow Double Gauze

I know many of you are focused on "kid sewing" this week (you can check out the Kid's Clothes Week blog for all the fun), and I did manage to...

Fall Pattern Preview: Josephine!
Fall Pattern Preview: Josephine!

Introducing Josephine, a new sewing pattern coming later this fall! UPDATE: Josephine is now availableI'm so. excited. to show you this first fall pattern preview -- it's kind of in...