And then last week explained my confuzzled brain will not allow me to digest complicated information right now so there's no jackets.
But my January garment is "a jacket"! Yay!
I made McCall's 6844 - for the 4th time. Hey, there is something to be said for making a garment that you've sewn a bunch of times already! Time flies!
I cut this out right away, perhaps on New Year's Day even and just hemmed it this morning. I just could not find matching thread. The thread I ended up using is a tad too light, but since the fabric has these lighter flecks in it, I think it's fine. Well, it is fine. I am wearing my cardi today.
I won't review it again; versions 1, 2 and 3 can be viewed on the blog! On this version I did do a 1/2" narrow shoulder adjustment, which helped a ton.
This fabric is ahhh-mazing. It's a medium weight, fairly stable ponte from FM. There's a little bit of it left!! (HERE)
Fabric: $11.19
Thread: $1.07
THEN I also forgot that I cut and got started on the S1699 jacket. And I hate it.
I'm going to add at least one sleeve to be sure it should just be scrapped...but it's too short, I don't like the fabric choice, and boooo! The good thing, it was a somewhat quick sew. It's a 3 piece pattern with only bust darts. Lining in the body but not sleeves (you can sew the whole lining and pull it through the sleeve opening!). Perhaps with a more stable fabric. This stuff was all shifty and is too fluid, imo.
It looks all loosey goosey
(pardon my messy room!)
Boooooo! Bag city.
What in the world happened here?!
Mojo-a-Go-Go
I have 2 other finished items, one in the works and possibly a 4th by the weekend. I want to get some good pics and considering it's dark when I leave home and dark when I return home...I'll just wait and take pics and blog on Sunday. 3 of the 4 are items I've made before so "easy", somewhat mindless sewing. Just what I needed this week!
