Style Arc Kent Woven Tunic

This is my third or fourth Style Arc pattern now so I’m getting used to the extremely brief instructions. There are useful illustrations but some slight details are inaccurate which makes it slow going to work out what’s happening. For example, the instructions for making the front tabs are in a different order to the illustrated steps, and the button hole switches sides between one picture and the next.
Style Arc always seems to use a 1cm seam allowance, with 0.6cm for ‘internal’ seams, but I found it difficult to tell which allowance to use and had to keep referring back to the pattern pieces. It would help to include the specific seam allowance size in the instructions.
The sleeve has an inside and outside layer, and quite a few steps in gathering, pleating, joining, buttonholing etc. I had to refer to the illustration on the envelope a bit because it was difficult to keep track of whether buttons should be in front of or behind the joining seams.

I also think that if I made this again I would only use interfacing on one of the layers of the collar and front tab because stitching through so many layers of interfaced fabric was really hard, even though I used very fine interfacing and light cotton lawn. I’ve bought some sharp needles to get round this problem next time.

The finished top is flattering I think and the sleeves are stylish without feeling impractical. It would work well in a more fluid fabric as well.  The back is longer than the front, almost minidress length, so I might shorten it to match the front as well.

I used the wrong side of the cotton lawn to make the design softer, which is do quite a bit.

The Kent Woven Tunic has so many great details. One of my favorites is the double layered sleeve. An inside smaller sleeve keeps the outside permanently voluminous. This is a size 6 which is graded to a size 8-10 over the hips. I also shortened it about 8 cm for a shirt length vs original tunic length. The fabric is a rayon with lots of drape. I had to redo my collar (slash and gather the paper pattern) to make it lie down flat on me.

 Here is a look from the back.