I remember cutting out this pattern, the Sunday Brunch Jacket by Oliver + S, back in late August just when my morning sickness from Baby G had started to kick in. Cutting, I made a beginner’s mistake and did not match up the beautiful princesses on the fabric to the pattern being cut, so guess what? There are two princesses right there at the top. Usually, I would have noticed right away and recut that piece of the pattern to match the overlapping piece, but it wasn’t until I was partway through making the jacket that I even noticed what had happened. I went ahead and finished most of the jacket but then put it aside for months thinking, well, that was a bust!
While cleaning the apartment for a big birthday celebration coming up soon, I came across this jacket again, abandoned on the project pile. The fabric is so beautiful. Purple and pink without inciting a gag reflex that will be familiar to most of us with daughters who are still in the throes of the pink and purple phase.
What the heck? It has been so cold around here still, this late in May. I took it back out, faced the glaring mistake, and decided that Mira would love it anyway. I attached a fake-out big button that we found at the Sheep and Wool Festival up in Rhinebeck in the Fall, sewed on some snaps, and finished the top stitching.
The pattern (not the fabric) is out of print now, but I have a feeling that you could find it if you did some searching. Even if ours does not quite do the fabric justice, the lines and fit of the jacket are so pretty and so cute all at once.
Sometimes Mommy is not perfect. Sometimes it will have to be the good enough good. But, really? I’m not even sure that Mira noticed at all. She was just happy with her new jacket adorned with Sleeping Beauties, in Heather Ross‘s fabulous Far Far Away 2 by the way, a swath of deep purple and little pops of pink and green.
Here’s the thing, the moral to this story: The lining is lavender, Mira’s favorite shade of purple, naturally, and it’s what is inside that really matters. Right, Princesses?
