Beautiful Liberty Fabrics & Bridgerton Blouse

Lucy has made this stunning blouse using the elegant Ribbon Cascade B from the Bridgerton and Liberty Fabrics collection. Ribbon Cascade is inspired by a collection of 18th century hand-painted point papers from the Liberty archive with nostalgic rose, poppy, and daisy bouquets peeking through finely embroidered ribbons and cascading floral chains.


“Years ago I made myself a square necked blouse from some vintage Liberty fabric I had stashed away. Since then I’ve been itching to make another one like it, however I didn’t use a pattern first time around and it was really more through luck than judgement that it worked out so well! So I have been looking around for a sewing pattern which was as similar as possible to my original blouse.”


“I recently found this one, the Ranea square neck top, by Tiana’s Closet on Etsy. It’s a downloadable PDF pattern, which I must confess is something I have never used before. It turned out to be a pretty simple process to print off all the pages and then trim and tape them together. Thankfully the correct layout for this was very clearly explained! I also enjoyed the fact that the pattern pieces were printed on regular paper rather than on the delicate tissue used in most commercial patterns.”

“I chose to make this in Ribbon Cascade B from the Liberty Fabrics and Bridgerton Tana Lawn collection. I thought the subtle shirt style stripes would work well with the straight lines of a square neckline, plus the puffy sleeves would give a little tiny nod to the fabulously full sleeves on display in the TV show costumes! I also love the bold colour splashes in the trailing flowers and bouquets in this design.”

“This was a really lovely sewing project. The pattern instructions were simple and clear. I chose to reduce the width of the lower front and lower back pieces slightly, as I didn’t want my blouse to be too full. This was an easy alteration to make, by folding back 3.5cm along the straight fold-line edge of the paper pattern pieces, before cutting out the fabric. I also chose to lower the front and back necklines slightly by cutting 3.5cm off the neck edge of each yoke pattern piece (again before cutting out the fabric).”

“I’m really happy with how this blouse turned out and pleased to have a pattern ready to use again and again in the future.  I might even make a dress version next time, by just extending the length when I cut it out and adding a tie belt…I think I’d better start looking for more fabric!”