So, you may have thought I had gone to Boston for that recruiting interview thing. How naïve. My real reason was....to go to a button store. I've had this blasted jacket finished for well over a month and hadn't found any decent looking buttons for it. Joann's is really rubbish. So I went to Windsor Buttons in Boston to look for some. I may never even look for buttons anywhere else again, it has EVERYTHING. And If I drive an hour to buy bread from a bakery I like, an hour for buttons isn't too much for me :P As it turned out, the buttons cost about the same as the fabric for the entire jacket did. It wouldn't be so bad if I got some sort of returns on the clothing, like selling some or something....
But I don't. Anyway. Not much too say since I finished this so long ago. It is from a burda pattern, out of some fabric I've had for years. When all the pieces were pinned down it took me 2 days to get the nerve to cut into it. It is really nice fabric and plaids are just so prone to completely failing. I traced out the plaid pattern (in coloured pencils!) on each pattern piece, taking into account the seam allowance, then lined them up on my fabric. It was SUCH a pain. The pattern pieces are friggin CURVED. Could I have picked a worse jacket pattern to make with a plaid? Probably not. I should be happy my self-destructive streak generally acts out in such mundane ways.
Closed view at the beginning of the post, then open view, partially open (how I'll probably wear it), and open to show you the lining. Pretty tame lining for me, I don't know what was wrong! I usually do crazy stuff. Pictures are a bit fuzzy. Dancing like a lunatic helps to put a fake smile on your face, but it does end up making picture fuzzy in bad lighting :P But I've noticed I look better a little fuzzy, lol . It was one of those days when the pictures would have looked better had my jacket been on my dress form.
Looking at the pictures, I may shorten the sleeves. They are comfortable, being long like that, but I'm worried it looks frumpy. We shall see.
And the button. Go figure that it would be a fuzzy picture after all the work of finding it, lol. I could take another picture but....laziness will be the death of me :P
Back to finishing my next project. I desperately need to start making things for other people, I really feel pathetic doing all this for myself. As if I was in need of clothes!
~Nikki
