Artist in Motion tunic using the wool/cashmere Escada

After thinking and measuring and planning and measuring some more,  I cut Louise Cutting's Artist in Motion Top pattern from the charcoal gray wool/cashmere layer of the oversized Escada coat.   

Here's the illustration of the tunic and here's what I ended up with. 

  The unaltered back length of the tunic is 24 5/8".  This one is 31" long.
    

I saved the Escada finished hems, mitered corners at the fronts, keyhole buttonholes and flat-felled seams and cut/sewed it as follows: 

• I cut the front pieces with the fold on the already hemmed and mitered plackets and hem of the Escada, even saving the buttonholes and re-using the buttons that I sewed together like those to secure French cuffs;    
• For the back and sleeves with their flat felled seams, I placed the pattern pieces to use those seams.    
• So my tunic has a flat felled back seam and the finished Escada hem
• The sleeves have flat felled seams down the center that line up with the shoulder seams that I also topstitched and treated as flat felled.  
• I block fused the neckline facing and sewed it per the pattern instructions and did a little hand stitching.
• I stitched the front plackets together for nine inches in the center, leaving the top opening the same and a 12 inch vent at the bottom.    I omitted the side vents.

More detail shots of the finished tunic on my Flickr photos.    

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Today's Chinchilla Drama 

On another note, this morning the bad boy chinchilla attacked and bit old Woodley through the slat of the wooden ceiling separating them.     I came down do do a little pressing on my tunic and gave both of them a piece of raw almond (one of their favorite treats).    Snowball went chinchilla ape-shit, bit Woodley's foot, and there was blood all over the place.  I took Woodley out of his house that he ran into and got several paper towels - still bleeding.    Shouted for husband to get the band-aids.    I applied pressure and stopped the bleeding and put the band-aid on.   Remember these are little guys.    We then reversed them.    Snowball is now on the top and Woodley is on the bottom.    I even put a block of wood on the edge where he bit Woodley's foot while standing on that shelf.   I don't want Woodley to stick his nose up there and Snowball to bite him.   Tonight Woodley is fine and took the band-aid off himself.  If the Perp keeps it up he's going to be serving a long sentence in the chinchilla slammer - the small metal cage on top.