Yup I'm doing it! I'm trying my hand at designing a jacket for the winter. A little scary, but awesome -I can make whatever I like, with in the constraints of the material of course.
The jacket isn't completely patternless, I did start off with a 'base', remember this?
Well I'm basing it off this, because I want it to have some flair, not like an ordinary jacket. Plus it's the only jacket pattern we have (last I checked) So after lots of researching to decide just exactly what style I wanted, and lots of astronaut looking sketches
I decided just to start, so I cut out the pattern in a large size (to leave room for draping etc) joined some of the pattern pieces together, as I didn't want the white biby thing that is in the above picture. I sewed a mock up in calico and spent ages in the mirror trying to pin it to fit. Then I decided to cut it in half so that I could add more length, cause as you can just see it didn't come down over my hips. So last night I added a strip and sewed it in between, like this (excuse the phone pictures)
(The right side is the top half by the way)
from the outside it looks more like this:
As you can see it's only half of it, and the bottom picture has the top on the left side instead.
Now I am starting to unpick the vertical seam so that I can cut it out on in the material (hence the lifeless half pictures)
The material
And that's as far as I've gotten, I'm hoping to have finished unpicking today and get onto the real thing, and eventually the decorating (really looking forward to that part :D )
But I still have to design the hood, collar, and sleeves yet so hopefully it all goes smoothly :)It'll probably be dystopian/post apocalyptic in style, using lots of zippers and old buttons for character :) This blog is definitely turning into a sewing/writing one.
-Tiffany
