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I am working on the collar now, and have painstakingly catch-stitched the interfacing down to the undercollar. I have basted the roll line, and steamed it: I have also finished padstitching both front lapels (and finished off the fronts generally), but since someone discovered them before I could get out the camera, this is the [...]
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 [...]
Daryl Lancaster and I swapped a couple of emails today – she was kind enough to offer some thoughts on the interfacing and backing. As I had half suspected, the mohair is too loosely-woven to work well with a sewn-in organza backing. (There are 1/16″ gaps between the threads!) If I simply tack it to [...]
