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Lesley asked what it would look like if I left a little of the black collar showing underneath the braid. I tried it tonight and it looks great! and very much like this: Many thanks to Lesley for the suggestion! Now, however, the black welt pocket looks out of place. So I tried removing it: [...]
I spent some time this morning playing with design for the cashmere coat. The original design, made back when I couldn’t draft my own, now strikes me as boring: I wanted something more daring, more asymmetrical, and yet wearable on the street. I spent some time draping various collar possibilities, and finally came up on [...]
Last night I thread-traced all the markings for the buttonholes (truthfully, there’s no other way to mark the mohair!). This morning I got up early and put in all five buttonholes, with very little effort (except on the first one where I accidentally sewed the buttonhole on the wrong side of the fabric!). I don’t [...]
Despite 11 hour days at work, I have been working on bound buttonholes, practicing and trying several different methods. Here are two of them, along with a button: I gave up on the second one halfway through as I didn’t like the look of it at all. The organza patch was supposed to press invisibly [...]
Things have been moving a bit slower than I would have liked, but I am making some progress. On Daryl’s advice, and after testing several options, I bought a yard and a half of tightly woven plum-colored flannel to use for interfacing. I drafted the interfacing patterns, cut out the interfacing, and marked it with [...]
