Butterick 5997 Red-Blue Plaid

Butterick 5997 is one of those sleeper patterns, the front of the envelope isn't going to sell many patterns but let me tell you this is a good one!

I made this pattern once before, July 2015 and I do believe the fabric might have been from my first ever Style Maker Fabrics!  I love this blouse and wear it quite a bit but never made it again.  In fact, I am not sure what happened to the pattern.  I think it might have gotten lost during our remodel.  

Thanks to Emily Hallman and her Fancy Fridays, I was reminded of this pattern and ordered it again.

My fabric is linen, it doesn't look like a traditional linen pattern.  The plaid and the colors remind me of fall, so I am wearing it now.  Here is the fabric at Mood Fabrics.

My changes:

• The cuffs and pockets are cut on the diagonal
• I cut the under collar on the bias and added a center seam.
• I shortened the top, the tunic length doesn't look right on me
• I should of lengthened the sleeves, so I used a smaller seam allowance on the cuffs.  That helped.

Here is the under collar

The bias

I love my new top and here is the back

Heading out for the day, I put on a long (purchased) sweater with my new JCrew jeans!

One more thing, like the sleeve treatment on my Gingham mash-up Archer

I used some chambray for the seam finish, sorry for the poor photo quality.