Update-Pattern Sew Through Challenge

Hi Creative People,

I want to share with you, my progress on my 'Pattern Sew Through Challenge'. Just in case this is your first time reading my blog, I will give you a brief overview. Over the years I have been purchasing patterns, especially when they are on sale at JoAnn's, and I have accumulated over 100 patterns, so instead of them just taking up space in my sewing room, and to avoid being labeled a hoarder, I decided to pick 5 patterns to complete within a couple of months and work on them between other projects I have going on. Once those five patterns are complete, I move on to five more. I am currently on my second set and I have completed four of the five projects. The next few pictures I will be showing you the progression of the first project.

The first project I worked on was Simplicity Pattern 1362, view B. I used this really pretty royal blue, white and black, floral 100% cotton fabric I purchased a while ago from Walmart. I pre-washed this fabric, like I do with every fabric purchase, and there was about 10% shrinkage in the fabric, just a little note that pre-washing fabric is one step in the sewing process that you never want to skip! Thank God, I had enough fabric left over to cut out this shirt pattern. Anyway, I have all the necessary notions needed to make this shirt, so all I need to do was layout and cut and mark out the instructions for the view I was completing.

This is a close-up of the view chosen.

Before starting construction of the project, I like to circle all the instructions related to the project, that way, I will stay focused on the steps needed to complete the shirt properly.

 The pattern was really easy, I attached the front and back of the shoulder seams, serged the seams and started attaching the seam binding in the neck hole area.

                         

Completed neck hole view

After completing the top part of the shirt, I then moved onto the side seams and sleeve/armhole area. Since the sleeves on the pattern are capped style sleeves, the instructions called for seam binding on the seam to neaten the portion of the sleeve hole that would not have any of the sleeve attached to it.

The completed sleeve and armhole.

 After completing the side seam, the sleeve cap and the seam binding, I hemmed the peplum and attached it to the top part of the shirt. In almost less than an hour, it was completed!

This high-low peplum top was really easy to complete, it fits a little larger on me than I would like and it is a little too long, but other than that, it's perfect. I hope you like this posting. Thanks for reading. Happy Sewing!