April Make a Garment a Month Challenge photos

I was glad that I took the time to almost finish (I still had to add buttons and buttonholes, but fastened it together with snaps) my Barb Callahan Damask Jacket for the class I took with her at the Worcester Expo earlier this month since at one point during the class she was talking about the way she usually sets in sleeves (flat) and I was able to stand up and show the class what her sleeves look like when they are set in that way. I also showed them the back of that garment since I think that's the best thing about it and I think many of them did, too, esp. the neat way that striped fabric curves at the ends of the peplum.

I ended up hand sewing some buttons on the front of that top once I got home, going through all the layers since I can take it on and off by pulling it over my head, but then decided that since the white flowers didn't match across the front, those buttons just drew people's attention to the wrong part of that garment so took them off and sewed a white band down the front in hopes that that would hide my mistakes. Since I was using a white band, I also had to go through my button stash to find black buttons to replace the white ones I'd originally used, but finally found enough that matched to make it work.

I was very pleased by the reception my top got at the meeting of my sewing guild the other night, in fact, one woman thought it was a store bought top, and since a lot of that design was my idea, not something Barb included in her pattern, I'm esp. proud of my results which you can hopefully see in the two photos below.

Rayon One Seam Pants

I thought my Ponte Roma Louise Cutting One Seam Pants turned out OK until I made a pair of rayon pants from the same pattern, without taking 1" off the pattern width and I am much happier with the results, although I still have to learn how to make the bottom of the pant legs less tapered than they appear in these photos, but then this is a very old pattern, one that has since been updated. Since Louise Cutting is going to be teaching classes in our area this weekend, though, I'm hoping she can help me with the fit since I can definitely see making lots more of these pants in the  future.

This garment is also my entry in the March Make a Garment a Month challenge, rather than the Barb Callahan Damask Jacket that I originally planned to make, since I realized that my classes with Louise were before my class at the Worcester Expo with Barb, but since I have over a week to go until the Expo, and already cut and basted the Damask Jacket together, I should be done in plenty of time and have my April MAGAM entry done well ahead of time for a change!