Pattern Review: Butterick 6105, a Pattern By Gertie

Completed Wrap Jacket

Product page for Butterick 6105

I give this pattern a 5/5

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Materials: black wool crepe, Japanese rayon chirimin crepe, metallic cross weave rayon satin in an orchid color (for lining).

Summary
I picked this retro styled wrap jacket pattern (designed by Gertie of Gertie's Blog for Better Sewing) at one of those fabric store pattern sales. My hoard of patterns is almost entirely composed of sale impulse buys. I don't sew from commercial patterns that often, which is... eh, I clearly have an impulse control problem. But, I'm glad I got this one. It is a beautifully crafted pattern in my opinion. My own result has a le smoking look to it due to my choice of fabrics, but I suppose I don't mind that. It's composed entirely of large fabric scraps from my stash, so my fabric choices were limited.

Pattern Review: Vogue 8942

Product page for Vogue 8942

Completed owl bag

Funny that the first pattern review on here would be a quirky bag; I don't usually sew bags of any kind let alone owl shaped ones. But I've owned up to The Weird: Unapologetic weirdo here. And I like owls.

It doesn't state a difficulty level on the pattern envelope and the techniques required aren't super advanced. But this was a challenging project! Small bulky pieces being sewn to other small bulky pieces? Faux fur and pleather? *krusty the clown groan* The pattern itself is good, and issues I had were small and easily fixed. I'll note them later. The end result looked as promised, pretty much (I used different materials). The pictures I took for this review while assembling the bag are kind of bizarre. That was a reward in itself.