Free Pattern: Threads Shawl Collar Blouse

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An Online Extra to Threads magazine

Free Pattern: Threads Shawl Collar Blouse

Print out this schematic for the blouse shown on the cover of the June/July 2003 issue of Threads, and add your own twin-needle embellishment

by Carol Spier

Open or download the PDF file below. (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files.)

ShawlCollarBlouse.pdf

To complement Carol Laflin Ahles's article "Terrific Twin Needle Effects," I designed a simple, wrap-front blouse with a large shawl collar that just begs for pintuck embellishment. If you'd like to make it, you can print out the one-quarter-scale schematic diagram for the pattern and enlarge it.

Carol Spier is editor in chief of Threads.

An Online Extra to Threads #107
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