Jenna - it's not you it's me.

Or is it?

For the first time in my sewing 'time' I have fallen out with a Closet Core pattern - gasp!!

 

Did my beloved betray me? Or did I just reallllly bodge up this shirt.  

I was so chuffed when I found some beautiful Japanese Liberty Lawn with Snoopy on - it wasn't cheap but I treated myself and thought I would make something 'simple' so as not to ruin the fabric. I've made shirts a zillion time before so the Jenna should be no problem right? Wrong. 

The idea was an easy breezy crisp blue shirt for Spring - looking all cool like this lady on the packet:

Jenna Shirt Closet Core

 I look more like some bloke called Steve in accounting.  

Edit: I've just re-read the pattern description and it does say 'menswear inspired'. Nailed it then. 

The size put me at a 16, pretty normal for me. I was expecting it to be a VERY oversized shirt but it isn't. So just beware pick your actual size for this one.

It is one of those makes that just went a bit awry. Firstly I didn't ave enough fabric for the full shirt due to width issues, so I had to get creative with 2 different colourways. 

The collar stand I found far too shirt for the neckline and really had to wrangle that in there. The collar then looks a bit awkwardly big in comparison.

The bit the annoyed the bejeezus out of me was the hem!!! I must have unpicked that thing 4 times. It's such a steep curve that it was getting wrinkled (ok, that has a solution - baby hem) but then joining the sides of the shirt together to the pre-hemmed pieces was a mess.  

 For that reason I had to chop off the now raggy hem and do it again. That meant I had to take in the side seams considerably to get them to line up with the hemmed lower shirt. Voila - one too small shirt that does not fit the brief of chic. Ah well. Win some loose some.  (To be fair I don't think I have ever been chic so no real loss hehe).

 

 Found cute Snoopy buttons from Button Box Devon though - so there's that.  

Having just had some time apart and taken some better pictures I don't think it is as disastrous as first thought - just not what I had in mind. It's wearable. And that's about it. 

I like it - but it's not love Jenna...

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