Jacket Progress: I finished the sloper and have drafted out the jacket pattern - yay me! Then I was in class yesterday and the teacher was talking again about "making X three times before mastering it" and I was like, Oh Crap. I can't make the Good Jacket until I make a wearable muslin (after perfecting the jacket draft in trash fabric).
So I spent yday afternoon happily considering what secondary color of jacket I'd want in my wardrobe. I think I've picked camel.
Super proud of working to upgrade my skills and fold everything together - this will be my first project drafted from my sloper, instead of hodge-podged together from bits of well-fitted pattern and self-drafted sleeves.
@SewBrooke Do you have any helpful tips for details, like bound buttonholes, to get a better final result, or do I just need to suck it up and make about a billion on scrap fabric? Seriously, I'll ruin a good project with details-from-kindergarten and I'm done with that.
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
Okay the math in the pattern drafting book for the jacket sloper was "interesting" insofar as results came out so we are definitely back to the drafting table.
Glad Press'nseal, scotch tape, and a fine point sharpie - transformer plush pattern has been created. I'll clean it up later and enlarge it, but at least now I can wrap & mail the figurine to Niece1 for Christmas.
#OptimusPlush
Patchwork jeans progress. I’ve gotten a second row on the front, and am piecing together a second row for the back. I’m debating here whether I should go back and topstitch these patches down as I go, especially for the back where I’m having to use multiple pieces to get the width. (The seams on the original denim pieces here were sooo diagonal, I had to straighten them out some.) If so, I’m not sure which color, since I’ve seen at least 3 different colors of topstitching on the seamed pieces I’m using in front. I think that will need something, since that gap between the pocket and the next seam is looking a bit wonky. So I haven’t actually stitched down the back pieces yet while I consider this. It looks like adding the back pockets will give a great effect, though.
