Style Arc Poppy Top

Here is the latest top, and I think my favourite Style Arc so far.  This is the first woven pattern I tried and one with more detailing than my previous choices.
I think it has come out really well and I had to make no fitting alterations to it at all.  This is it straight from the envelope.  The remaining wrinkles are due to this being pure linen.  I just ironed it before the photo shoot but I am sure linen just wrinkles to spite me when my back is turned.
 
I used the originally drafted seam allowances of three eighths and a quarter inch and these meant no seam trimming was needed which was nice and it also meant that curves were easier to negotiate as well.

I didn't choose quite the right interfacing for the facings, too heavy, and this made getting the pleats to lie nicely a bit more difficult than it might have been.  I also edge stitched  the pleats which made them stick out a bit more than desirable.  But overall I'm very pleased with it and plan to make a second version in a lightweight black wool suiting at some  point, possibly also lengthen the sleeve to make it full length, fold in the pleats, and maybe make it in a very lightweight fleece or boiled wool, without the pleats, to make a cute little jacket.  I think it would look really lovely as the shaping in the pattern is excellent.

This does come with a short sleeve and I did cut  them out and tack them in to check the fit of the Style Arc sleeve. I found it was perfect in terms of fit but I plan to wear this top over a thin knit top in the autumn to give me more chance to wear it, the opportunities to wear sleeveless tops being a bit more limited in the UK than in the pattern's native Australia.
I thought sleeveless was the way to go for doing that.

I was particularly pleased that this worked with no complex alterations as this means  I should be able to get away without altering my Ziggi jacket too much.  I think I should be safe to make it in its final fabric and tack it then take it in/let it out to perfect the fit, as it looks like it will be close enough that just tweaking fit within the seam allowances should be sufficient.

I've  been impressed with the drafting of these patterns and the markings  are clear and numerous so its easy to put them together.  I think the success of this top bodes well for theZiggi jacket project, which is likely to be even more challenging than originally thought as I've now picked the fabric and its very thick and bulky.  Lovely, but thick.  And there was not enough of one colour, because they are remnants, so I have two  different colours   It was one of those situations where you see  the fabric, love it, are determined to have it and make it work somehow, but then reality sets in a day or two later and you start to wonder just HOW you should go about making it work.  So there is gonig to be much consultation of sewing books, particularly the Clare Schaeffer book of every fabric on earth and how to sew it (not called  that but I'm not in the same building as the book currently so can't find the real title) and a bit of colouring in of line drawings/creative layout of pattern pieces, to try and get a two colour jacket that looks intentional and not "poor thing, she ran out of/could not afford enough of/messed up the cutting of, her fabric."  But hey, I like a challenge,and at least its going to be a warm jacket.  :)