Thank you for all the kind comments re everyday sewing. It is reassuring to read that other people like to see real life clothes! My latest project was very quick, easy and pleasing. I had some scraps left over from my latest work blouse, and thought I'd try the free Sorbetto pattern from Colette patterns. I am possibly the last sewing blogger to try this, but was a bit put off by comments from some curvaceous persons who found this unflattering, so had it lying around in the sewing room waiting for the right remnants. Well, it is just perfect on a slim teenager, even if she has an hourglass figure. Size 0, with the sleeves from Sew Incidentally, not even scaled down to a 0 (the sleeve is about a 6), and with no adjusting of allegedly incompatible seam allowances. I told you it was quick and easy! (I think it took about an hour to cut out and sew) I was actually inspired to make this by SusanKPs pretty blouse in her latest 6pac. I didn't use her good idea of mid section gathering, but used the pleat in the pattern. As I had to cut the front out in two sections, with a joining seam, I used a machine embroidery feather stitch in a hopefully disguising manner along this seam, and also used this stitch to embellish the neckline binding. The hem is bound as well, as the top is actually for my older daughter, who is not only taller than daughter the second (there wasn't a lot of fabric left), but lives mostly in Brisbane, a few hundred km away, so can afford to introduce the same fabrics as her mother wears into her wardrobe, as no one will ever see her mother. Now I am under strict instructions to make a second one for this particular model, or maybe 3 or 4? Stashbusting statistics - about a metre of remnant cotton. The benefits of sewing size 0!