Pattern Review: Butterick Retro '52 Capelet

 First off, sorry for the huge absence. I've been meaning to post, but with the coming retail holiday season I've been dealing with a lot of stress and have been lacking motivation.

 

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Butterick 4927

Pattern Description: Retro 1952 Wrap and Capelet

 What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? I wish that it were constructed slightly differently. Due to the weight of my fabrics, the hem is puffy, and I think that constructing it in a different way would have prevented that. The instructions do not have you topstitch anything, and that may have helped with the puffiness.
  
Fabric Used: Dark blue "fashion suiting" and a silky print used as lining from Joanns. I'm sure it's all 100% poly.

 Pattern alterations or any design changes you made: I was unable to get my machine to work on the buttonhole setting, so I hand sewed button holes, and due to the size of my buttons, made it single breasted instead of double. The fabric I used was a little too lightweight, and I may go back and see if chain-weighting it may help to hold it in shape.

My favorite part of this is the lining. As usual, my photographs are crap and don't do the fabric any justice.  The lining fabric really reminds me of Biba fabrics. I want a whole dress out of it! I originally had a black and blue floral silky print I'd found in the sale section (which was tiny? They had taken out the whole wall fixture that used to be full of clearance and red-tag fabric and replaced it with pre-cut yardage of novelty flannel and fleece.) and was trying to find an outer fabric. I waffled between this blue suiting and a black and white houndstooth suiting, and wound up going with the blue. I wish I had used the other, as it was slightly weightier. Anyway, the silky prints were in the same aisle as the suiting, and I found it while being shoved out of the way by a woman with a screaming kid, who screamed for the entire hour and a half I was in the store. Non-stop shrieking. 

My buttonhole setting on my machine didn't work, so I had to do the buttonholes by hand, which took the most time of the entire project. Overall, it only took about four hours start to finish.