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The making of an ie.
From a length of white cotton to a blouse.
Follow the red embroidery and gold sequins of patch 74 from a single square to an imagined blouse.
AI-generated interpretation inspired by patch 74 of 141 (MU-064). The sleeve arrangement and garment design are imagined; this is not a photograph of the actual blouse or a sewing pattern.
The sleeves move away from the body to reveal their placement. Shoulder and lower-sleeve embroidery remain together here; this is an explanatory view, not a cutting or sewing diagram.
The ie, worn
The finished ie
The finished ie carries broad panels of diagonal red embroidery across the upper chest. Its sleeves fall freely, with open ends rather than gathered wrists.
This photograph shows the actual blouse. The interactive illustration above is an interpretation of the patch, with its broad chest embroidery and open sleeve ends guided by the photograph.
From patch to blouse
One motif, many possibilities.
Patch 74 of 141 brings together diagonal red cross-stitch bands and small gold sequins on white cloth. Here, those details provide the starting point for an imagined ie.
Select an area to explore how the motif might move across the shoulders, sleeves, chest, neckline, and sleeve hems.
An interpretation
Giving the sleeves their rhythm.
The diagonal repeats of the patch become broad bands running lengthwise down the sleeves, with narrow white intervals and gold sequins catching the light. A single wider band of the same motif finishes each open sleeve hem.
The arrangement was created with AI for this feature. It does not document a historical blouse or prescribe how to cut, stitch, or assemble one. The original patch remains available alongside the illustration for comparison.