BLOGLIKECRAZY 2016 DAY 18: #Faye'sSewingLife...

...sometimes in Faye's Sewing Life getting down to the actual sewing process
 becomes quite difficult.  Unless of course unless you take into consideration:

• Time spent thinking about sewing
• Time spent perusing pattern after pattern
• Time spent pulling piles of fabric from the stash trying to decide just which piece to use; then having to put the fabric back up again

Vogue 1261 won out this week after hibernating in the pattern stash since 2013.

I chose View B, an easy enough top to make. 

•  I alleviated the center back seam because what's the point of having it on this particular design.

• I toyed with using the exposed/top-stitched armhole seaming as the pattern suggested but decided not to due to the textured knit chosen for the project.  I stitched the sleeve in flat and then top-stitched the seam.

• I hemmed the sleeves but zigzagged the bottom hem as a finish.  Normally I would have serged the bottom hem then turned up to stitch.  But in this case I had only one spool of mustard cone thread, and I felt that turning up to stitch would have caused the hem to be a bit bumpy due to this textured knit.
• I folded the collar and stitched to the neckline, then top-stitched the seam down

MY REVIEW OF THE FINISHED PRODUCT:  I really should have listened to the advice of Pattern Review contributors who had this to say about the pattern:

• View B runs smaller than Views A or C
• Sleeves of View B are smaller than those of Views A and C
• The sleeves are tight and need enlarging

I guess you could say, what's the use of reading the reviews if you aren't going to take heed of them. 
Besides that, the sleeves even looked tight the pattern envelope.   I think it's a great top give the fact that I should have cut a size larger and enlarged the sleeves.

Nice top, but future makers beware...