Make a Garment a Month Challenge - June 2015 plans - Mrs. Style Book 2015

A sweet friend recently sent me this wonderful publication that is unavailable for purchase in the U.S. and oh, how I wish we had something like Mrs. Style Book 2015 here!  Full of inspiration, beautiful photographs of lovely models wearing the beautiful clothes, coupled with patterns for all the photos shown in this magazine like book, it is truly an amazing publication.  There are 2 knit patterns included in this issue.  ALL the rest of the patterns (and there is a LOT) you draft yourself beginning with a basic bodice pattern for the tops and waist/hip measurements for bottoms.  I am still figuring out how this all works, as it is written in Japanese...... but look at that cute yellow top on the front!

June's Make a Garment a Month Challenge is 'Seasonal Stashbusting'.....

.....and May's Alabama Chanin 4-panel skirt was made but not embroidered because.....

.....it was immediately paired with the new Ottobre no. 10 Sculpture top and I've been afraid the embroidery might detract from the overall 'look' of this outfit.  I might change my mind, but for now it will stay unembroidered.  I do plan to hand-stitch top-stitch the seams as a faux flat fell.

So here we are with June's theme of 'Seasonal Stashbusting' and my feeling that I did not complete May's theme...... so, my June 2015 Make a Garment a Month Challenge plans will be to make this cute yellow top made out of a soft dove gray knit from my stash to be paired with the gray Alabama Chanin unembroidered 4-panel skirt.  A monotone outfit in grays.

Here the top is again, in all the photos below, paired with skirts, pants and even a cardi/jacket.  At first I was afraid this top might be for the younger set, but both younger and older models are shown wearing the top.  If you look carefully at the bottom right photo, you'll see a smaller photo of just the top in the top right-hand corner.  That is where it gives you the pattern page number.  Let's see.... p. 187.... got it!

This is a cropped view of p. 187 showing the top in black/white referencing p. 36 & 37 from the modeled photos above.  This is all the pattern information given.  Yikes!  But upon careful examination, this is a pattern built upon altered rectangles.  Hmmm, I think this might be manageable. 

Monotone and Stashbusting at one time!
Happy Sewing Everyone..... and hope everyone is having a good day, wherever you may be!