So with the pattern sorted next up is fabric prep & construction… Fabric & Notions Used This being a jacket to match my new reversible(ish) pencil skirt, I used mostly the same material as the skirt, namely… Teal & Brown Wool Acrylic Print Novelty Knit from the sweater knit section of Mood NYC. YKK Excella […]
OK, there’s a fair few photos to show for this project, so I’m mixing things up a bit and splitting this into two posts. First up, the pattern & alterations. The Design & Pattern Burdastyle 2013-11-117 Doesn’t the jacket look so cool in Burda magazine’s photos? I was seduced. Ever since I sew Marc Jacob’s […]
Next up is the jacket. Because one was planned in my SWAP Fall/Winter 2014 even though I ended up using neither of the pattern candidates & was perfectly willing to sacrifice the idea of a jacket when I decided maybe a pull-over would suit this fabric better. I was lucky my frugal layout allowed me […]
Before I show you the matching reversible(ish) Burdastyle 11/2013 #117 moto jacket I suppose I should catch you up on my jacket block(s) experiment, since I used that as my fitting yard stick for this jacket. Remember my Kenneth King moulage from way back when? And the Top Block that I muslined backed in January? […]
Pencil skirts should be dead easy once you got the fit sorted right? But the Artiste in me obviously can’t live with a life that easy. So the first 3 pencil skirts this year will all have torturous kinks to them & take indecent amount of time to make. First out of the studio…a sporty […]
