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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Bridal samples
I’ll write more about CNCH once I get home (I have a very flaky internet connection right now), but I just had to post photos of my workshop samples! The warp is a 30/2 silk/cashmere blend, with a variety of wefts. But there is one clear winner:
I got the double happiness symbols right the first [...]
Shoulder pads
I really should have made these before putting on the sleeves and facings, but I made my own shoulder pads today. It was interesting to contrast them with commercial pads – these are designed for the specific garment, using the pattern pieces for the front and rear shoulders, and (unsurprisingly) they fit a heckuva lot [...]
Mohair coat, with collar
I finished putting the collar and facings on the mohair coat today:
I’m moderately pleased with it. The collar looks nice (good choice of colors), and one lapel is just about perfect. In the other, however, it seems I didn’t add enough room for turn-of-cloth, and so the mohair fabric is showing behind the collar. (If [...]
Another simulation
After sleeping on it, I realized that the problem with the eternity-heart motif wasn’t the motif itself, but the spacing. I had been threading up straight draw, and as a result the pattern repeated every half-inch, crowding the motifs together.
Unfortunately there was no way to do both the knot and the heart in 24 shafts [...]
Full steam ahead!