Category: Style Arc Preston Knit Sweater

Year End Wrap Up

As we all know, this year has been a crazy one on so many levels. I didn’t do some of the things I had planned when I started the year. I completely got off track, then slowly got back to my sewing goals. So I did, at least, want to write a year end wrap up of the projects I completed and what some of my favorites are.

One of the things I actually wanted to do was to keep track of the number of yards I sewed this year. That didn’t happen. I did it for the first month, then I got distracted (global pandemics will do that).

Woman wearing sweatshirt and sweat pants

Comfort is essential and this picture features two of my favorite makes this year. The top is a Style Arc Preston Knit Sweater and the pants are Jalie sweatpants. Both the sweatpants and the top fit me perfectly without any alterations. Because I paired the right fabric with each pattern, they are especially comfortable.

The Trench

Another favorite and a great pattern is this Angela Wolf Chloe trench coat.

woman wearing Angela Wolf Chloe trench

This can be lined or unlined (mine is unlined). It can be made from traditional trench coat fabric. I made this one from home decor cotton. It’s washable and I really like the mosaic print. Here is the original post.

woman wearing Chloe trench back view

Tees

I love sewing basics, whether it’s a T-shirt or some other kind of top. I really enjoy this Trudy turtleneck pattern. It’s another PDF by Wardrobe By Me.

woman wearing WBM Trudy turtleneck

I took the Wardrobe Builder Tee (Wardrobe By Me pattern) and made my inspiration piece.

Wearing Wardrobe Builder Tee with Bishop sleeves

This just required a sleeve alteration to get the modified bishop-sleeve look.

These are just some of my most favorite things I made this year. While I made some pants and skirts, I will focus more on wardrobe building in 2021. The new year brings more opportunities to really create the wardrobe I want.

What are you sewing and what are your favorite things to make?

That’s it for this year end wrap up! Thanks for reading and I’ll see you all in the new year.

Style Arc Preston Knit Sweater

This was one of those patterns that as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to make it. This Style Arc Preston sweater is made from a heather gray knit blend (I cannot, for the life of me, remember what it is). But the fabric is most likely a ponte knit. It doesn’t have a tremendous amount of stretch, but it has enough and it keeps its shape.

Style Arc Preston Knit Sweater pattern

The Pattern

I was intrigued by this Style Arc Preston knit sweater because it has a sweatshirt look but with pockets. The raglan sleeve design makes it an easy wearing and comfy top. I see this as being something that’s very versatile.

Heather gray Style Arc Preston knit sweater front

Because I’m at home most of the time, it’s important to have something comfortable to wear.

As far as sewing this, it went together fairly easily. The only thing that I did have some issues with was the pocket construction. The pockets seem to be a bit smaller than they’re supposed to be. You can read about the pattern here. If you’ve ever used Style Arc patterns, they don’t have a lot of explanations/instructions with their patterns. But, the illustrations are very clear.

Style Arc Preston knit sweater back

The comfort and style of the pattern reminds me of the toaster sweater I made a while back. I definitely see this as a pattern to make again. One thing that I really like about Style Arc is that I don’t have many if any fitting issues. I can base my pattern size off of the sizing chart.

Also, what I have is a PDF pattern. I think there may have been shipping issues for paper patterns due to the pandemic. I put the pattern pieces together in less than 30 minutes. Because I wanted this as a weekend project, I didn’t care about it being a PDF.

Relaxing in my Style Arc Preston knit sweater

This is a great weekend project and great to wear on the weekend (or any other day)!

I hope you all are well. I appreciate you.

Let me know in the comments what projects you’re working on.

I have many more Fall sewing projects to make!