I have finished a Style Arc Lennie Overshirt in my nice hummingbird cotton lawn. I don't usually wear big patterns so I hope it doesn't look like a 'holiday' shirt. It's my 2nd Style Arc make and once again the fit is really good.
I nearly came a cropper with the front placket - the pattern is drafted wrongly. The pattern has a slot cut out for the placket. I was just going to cut the whole front piece on the fold and cut a slit and use the cuff placket technique that worked really well for me, but I decided to follow the pattern. Having snipped into the bottom corners of the front slot I then discovered that the front bands are 1 1/4" wide and the gap between the seam lines of the front slot is 1 1/2" so there was no way the buttonhole band was going to overlap the button band without 1/4" sticking out. I managed to get round it by fusing a small piece of lightweight woven interfacing across the bottom where I had snipped into the corners and then putting on the bands with 1/4" seam instead of 3/8" so that they fully overlapped.
Is it worth e mailing Style Arc and pointing this out? Do they take any notice? I looked for any reviews of the pattern to see if others had had the problem in different sizes but couldn't find any reviews.