Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A project nearly sidelined by cat interference almost every step of the way ✨ Today I'm making a brand new and yet frankly familiar blouse in a very fun and festive shade of iridescent silk taffeta!

This silk at Silk Baron: silkbaron.com/product_p/836.htm
Shirt cuff placket tutorial: off-the-cuff-shirtmaking.blogspot.com/2014/01/tutorial-shirt-sleeve-placket.html

Was I hoping to have this video out last Thursday? Yes? Does everything take longer than I wish? Also yes.

Music and Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound.

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