simplicity 2601 - it has a peplum

Hello there. Have your days been as full as mine? I love getting home from work in the summer and feel like I still have day left, like there's part of the actual day that my family and I own. We enjoy the sinking sun, and pick things from the garden, and take too long making dinner. Why the heck not?

I've been sewing too, but really not finishing much. I suppose I might take process pics, but I've been doing that a bunch in the garden instead. One finishing exception—I did manage to sew the buttons on to this top I sewed a couple of weeks ago. I like it. It has a peplum (aka it flounces out under the waist), which is about my favorite thing ever in a button-down blouse. I made it as a muslin, but I like it as a shirt. After completing it, I almost cut into my "good" fabric right away, but then I decided that I should probably take it for a test drive. How many times have you noticed how much less comfortable a shirt is at 3:30 at your desk than it was at 7:00 in front of your bedroom mirror? A million. The shirt held up well. I had been thinking about taking it in a little at the waist, but now I don't think I will. I will make the shoulders more narrow though. I'll pinch a straight line down from the shoulders right through the bust. That will shape it up just fine.