I also decided to enter the plaid contest on Pattern Review. Hopefully I will make the deadline. To do so required me to finalize the pattern I wanted to use and I had several in mind. I have been heavily influenced by this shirt on Soft Surroundings website.
Photo from Soft Surroundings posted on my Pinterest Top Board |
My plaid fabric is a knit and I cannot find a shirt pattern for knit that looks similar. I do have an OOP McCall's pattern that is a shirt pattern with a back yoke and I could modify the back piece to have a gathered back bodice.
However since time is an issue for me, I decided to go a different route but use the plaid and a floral fabric I bought with this inspiration in mind. I am making a pattern I made previously that fits great and I get lots of compliments when wearing because of the style as well as the fabric color.
I have cut out the front piece for this pattern trying to carefully align the plaid for the front. I don't normally sew plaid and have not been a fan of plaid. Yet everywhere I shop and see online is a lot of plaid. So it has grown on me. I will have to work on matching the sleeves; another reason I don't sew plaid as it takes some maneuvering to align.
Updates later.