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Tonight is quilt guild. 

I think I will wear my new handkerchief blouse. Thanks to my friend Mara, I ended up with enough for my all purple top. Here is my  hankie shirt that I made two years ago.

My next one just might be out of Christmas hankies!

 Front view

 Back view. It makes me wonder if the top two hankies didn't come in the same pack?

For quilt guild tonight it's a pot holder exchange. Bring 2 get 2! It's also picnic night. 

Here are my two potholders. 

Stay tuned for what I bring home!

It's a Hankie kind of day

The other day on PBS I saw the Sewing with Nancy show.

She had Amy Barickman making a handkerchief blouse.

I immediately knew I was going to make one.

It took me two tries in our little podunk town to find a pattern.

Actually on my second trip to Hobby Lobby,

I asked the clerk to open the box just delivered

from simplicity, to see if pattern #3842 was in there.

BINGO, there was one!

One was all I needed.

If you order the book Hankie Style, I'm pretty sure there is a little different pattern included.

I just winged it!

It took me 11 hankies and a lot of flat felt seams.

I pieced the hankies so I could also use the borders at the bottom and partially up the sides.

Notice the sleeves? It called for hemming, but I hated to waste the borders.

I think it looks pretty darn cute over a tank top.

I'm now on a mission for blue and violet hankies for my next one.