Happy Homemade Sew Chic Pattern J

 I've decided to make this little jacket in a nice grayish green cotton fabric.

 Pieces are cut.

I love these glass head pins.

So my jacket is kind of huge.   I'm going to move the pockets up and shorten this as well as make the plackets wider to reduce the size.



O.K.   I'm pleased with my modifications.

I think I'm also going to add just one button at the waist.  I've narrowed my selection to two options.  I'm leaning  towards the horn button to keep things simple and "zen"

Here's the finished jacket.  I like it shorter and I can reach into the pockets now without stretching.

While I am happy that Japanese patterns seem to be smaller in the fact that the shoulders finally fit me properly.  I'm still finding the patterns to be a little too wide and long and I've had to modify everything I have made from this book thus far.

I just ordered and received two awesome books.  I'm so inspired by them.

I'm not going to teach anyone how to sew as I feel I am somewhat of a novice.
I would like to share some of the things I have made from them.

The thing I like about Japanese sewing books is that the proportions seem to be made for me.
I am what most call petite but petite sizes do not fit me well nor do I find the average petite style offering to be... let me say "contemporary"   It seems most designers of clothes and patterns think that if a woman is petite she is really wide really old and really short in the waist.  I am neither.

So I started out with Sew Chic.  This is what I made

 Pattern S - sleeveless blouse with frill and   Pattern L- straight cut sarouel pants.

 Pattern T- double cuff Bermuda shorts   with the frill blouse.  I used a lovely toile fabric by the way.

 this is the frill blouse in a white really light weight cotton with the shorts.

And finally the sarouel pants with the white blouse.  I don't think I would ever wear these pants with anything but a tight tee shirt as so much volume  overwhelms me.