Sewaholic Granville Version 4

 This shirt has been a while in the making.  When I visited Sydney last year, top of my shopping wish list was a trip to Tessuti Fabrics.  It nearly didn't happen because we only had a rental car for two days and after we dropped it off the logistics of public transport with 2 boys in tow who were less than keen to say the least, began to hurt my head.  It wasn't until the last day that I suddenly realised that they had a shop in downtown Sydney and what is more, it was only a block from my hotel.  After I had worn the boys out sightseeing on the last day, I deposited them at the hotel and set out on my fabric buying adventure without them.  I actually had no plans in mind to buy anything at all but I did manage to find a few gems and this piece is one of them.  The fabric in question, is a piece of Italian cotton shirting.  It has a lovely soft almost satiny finish to it and I knew straight away that it was destined to be a Sewaholic Granville.

My last version of Sewaholic Granville is a little tight across the shoulders and chest so for this version, I printed out a size up.  I was feeling very happy about this decision until I realised after cutting out my fabric that somehow I managed to mess up the printing part way through when the ink ran out and my size 8 was printed the same size as the size 6 that was too small....eeek!

The only way to try to counteract my stupidity was to reduce my seam allowances and this is exactly what I did.

I did make one change to the pattern during construction and that was to cut the back in one piece so I didn't have to match all of those pesky stripes.  I simply overlapped my pattern pieces and included a fish eye dart for my shaping.

I am really happy with my latest version of this shirt.  Somehow I managed to get the fit spot on but I do have one small gripe.  There is some pulling in the stitching in my dart from straining when I sit at my desk.  I think in the future I will save this pattern for stretch fabrics.