Butterick goes old school

The new Buttericks for fall are up and much to my extreme surprise there are a few I will definitely be getting and definitely making (as opposed to the general collecting and dust gathering I am more familiar with).

These are real life clothes.

In fact it has been a while since I have seen a collection with so many wearable staples. (Note none of these picks are the full skirted waisted dresses that I can assume someone, somewhere is making).

A good basic coat - crazily described as unlined which annoys me. If you don't need a lining you don't need a coat. Don't make it easy by making it bad - fortunately adding a lining to something like this is easy. 

But don't you think if either of these coats below were hanging in your closet don't you think you would reach for them? These are the kinds of coats that you put your hand on when the other hand has the car keys.

I think the first coat would be practical and ladylike in a soft wool and the second on would work if it had more buttons.

I also liked this jacket, again another shawl collar, as something you could wear with pants or a slim skirt for a casual suit or just to cover up a T shirt. Again not going to change the world but practical and not every day changes the world, or at least mine don't: 

I also liked, and would probably wear a lot of, these shirt views. I am getting tired of droopy tunics with my pants and these are good around-the-house and the around-the-neighbourhood basics:

Finally here is this unexciting staple but it comes with the FBA already done which is worthwhile. You never know when you might need a shell and you could always play around with the neckline if you wanted to:

Maybe if Butterick could find a place as a location for TNT's it might finally find a home in the BMV corporate model.

Summer Buttericks

I am on to the next thing this morning. Two more weeks and we leave to go home. I spent most of last week resting from bra-making and working on generic blouse patterns for me. More on that later. I am in DC in two weeks and I realized and had promised my son there a shirt (which I have been putting off because I want it to be perfect and to read David Coffin's book first) and he gave me a bolt he would like me to make some curtain things for over his closet with, with those rings. I have never used the rings and the thing is that the wonderful fabric he gave me is burlap.

Yes burlap. This should be an adventure. Remain posted.

I said a while back that I was beginning to despair over Butterick's shrinking offerings and here this morning they have posted some cool patterns for knit tops, very wearable, and an easy dress that would be perfect for some rayon Batik I have a home. Of course now I have to find a pattern sale, there is a Jo Ann's here but the patterns never seem to be on sale. Maybe BVM club will do me a favour soon.

So here are my pattern potentials for some fast summer sewing.