Project #2 - dark brown pencil skirt

Another UFO finished! Same pattern as the black skirt, this one is made of a medium-weight wool crepe and lined with Ambiance.

Yesterday, I finished reading Kathleen Fasanella's book The Entrepreneur's Guide To Sewn Product Manufacturing - it is a fascinating read. Some of the information I had already gleaned from her very informative blog, the rest was cool news to me - as in "oh wow, how cool". I enjoyed the book immensely; Kathleen's style feels very alive as if she were right there talking to me. I learned a lot from the book, though I probably missed a lot more than I learned, lacking appropriate frame of reference that only comes from experience. Unit 5 (Improving Product Quality) alone was worth the price of the book. It has sections on how to make templates, draft linings, fit the torso, make a production pattern, etc. All of these will be of immediate use to any home sewer. I'm always looking for ways to improve accuracy and make the sewing process more efficient. I found them in the book.
The most important revelation was that my armholes are correct. They always look funny on my patterns and I thought maybe I was crooked or something so I never really talked about it. Page 168 (right side of fig. 5.59) shows how my patterns' armholes look. Kathleen gives an excellent explanation with pictures for why this is correct. I'm not crooked!