Now that I’ve got all my fabrics from the Interview with the Vampire props auction prewashed and catalogued, I’m doing my best to try and sew through them, especially the ones more suited to summer garments, like the cargo trousers I made recently (also worn here). But it’s also been brutally hot here in London, which limited my sewing time and energy, so once it finally cooled down I ended up sewing this in an afternoon!

The fabric here is a steel blue textured viscose from the props auction. It was unusual in that it actually had a fabric store label on it detailing the fibre content, so I can confidently say it is 100% viscose instead of just guessing from a burn test. This piece was like most of them, in that it had about 1.5m with a portion cut out but included. This was a more usual yardage amount to work with, unlike the odd shape of the cargo trouser linen, and it was enough to cut this pattern without too much Tetrising. It takes a press nicely and is a great weight for tops with lovely drape, but it does fray a lot so I’m glad that the pattern instructions includeed finishes for all raw edges (a mix of overlocking, french seams, and facings).