Sewing Staycation Success

I truly enjoyed my time off this past week. I was able to complete three sewing projects. The first one was posted here.
The second project was another McCall's sweater knit top, M6796. My first version of this pattern was a year ago. The second version I deemed a success. There were lots of side seam matching due to the design. I cut both front and back pieces as a single layer so that I could get stripes and design patterns to match up.
Here is the finished top on a hanger. The above side view was a work in progress photo. Wearing photo will come later.
I decided to use the striped area at the shoulders and the floral design for the bottom. This created I thought less matching issues at the bottom. For the collar I wanted to have the floral part of the fabric at the neckline to tie in with the floral bottom portion of the top. The tops shown on the pattern envelope show adding buttons to the collar. I am not going to add buttons to this one as I think the fabric shou…
The second project was another McCall's sweater knit top, M6796. My first version of this pattern was a year ago. The second version I deemed a success. There were lots of side seam matching due to the design. I cut both front and back pieces as a single layer so that I could get stripes and design patterns to match up.
Here is the finished top on a hanger. The above side view was a work in progress photo. Wearing photo will come later.
I decided to use the striped area at the shoulders and the floral design for the bottom. This created I thought less matching issues at the bottom. For the collar I wanted to have the floral part of the fabric at the neckline to tie in with the floral bottom portion of the top. The tops shown on the pattern envelope show adding buttons to the collar. I am not going to add buttons to this one as I think the fabric shou…