Selfie-nights and Harvest Cardi
May. 18th, 2016 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzAfter all, you only make a planning of your activities to completely ignore it, right?
Yesterday I cycled to the market, picked up interfacing for my blazer, picked up bigger buttons for the shirt, and bought matte not-quite-light-jeans-blue stretch linen for the exam blazer. It'll be wonderful to work with and be pretty with pretty much every detail. I was tempted by a matching skai leather for the collar, but decided against it. I need less stress and less headaches on the exam day, so skai leather is OUT.
The blazer I'm making for the assignment will be a winter-blazer, with full interfacing, lining and made from tweed. The exam blazer will be my summer blazer, and I bought 5 meters of fabric so I can later make a pair of trousers or a skirt to have a full outfit.
Once home, I sorted through a ton of buttons that were stashed in an old sewing box I was gifted by Tyldak weeks ago, since I had nothing better to do (*snort*). Some old lady diligently cut buttons off old shirts and suits and coats and saved all of them. And we had a frantic half-hour search for my pencil box and rulers and then I adjusted the blazer block and drafted a two-piece sleeve to match.
After Eisirt went off to work, I traced the basic block and cut a muslin, pre-heated the oven, and showered while my single portion lasagna was cooking. Around eight o'clock, I was finished with the muslin of my blazer and I hadn't sewn a single stitch on the shirt, but I did have a blazer muslin and the pattern finished and a good inventory of buttons.
Then I took a couple of selfies of the blazer block and my Harvest Cardigan, which has been steadily growing since I figured out how to do the sleeves on Saturday. I'm now done with all the decreases of the left sleeve and needed to see how much farther to go straight down before starting on the garter stitch cuff. I've made ample notes in order to be able to reproduce this perfectly for the right sleeve (what could go wrong?!)
No wobbles, no bobbles. I wish my waist always looked like this.
I'm aiming for 17 cm more, which makes the hem drape 2cm over my wrists. You can't imagine what a luxury too-long sleeves are for someone for whom normal longsleeves are ALWAYS this length. If it fluffs out too much by blocking or washing, I can always take some off.
The hem is also still on the cable, awaiting to see how much yarn I have left after the sleeves so I can use most of it up.
José checked my blazer block today -- it's all good, although I measured the armscye wrong -- and we then fitted the muslin, which fits really well. I've made some notes about hem height and lapel start, and a few darts for the back were pinned. So I can start on a new sleeve pattern and start on the blazer design when I want. Progress!
New plan!
Finish the shirt by Monday, so I can hand it in.
Make a start on the blazer pattern. I want to copy elements of men's suits like the buttonhole in the lapel, and the breast pocket for a kerchief. I am hoping for a timeless, herringbone tweed masterpiece with faux suede collar and elbow patches.
Yesterday I cycled to the market, picked up interfacing for my blazer, picked up bigger buttons for the shirt, and bought matte not-quite-light-jeans-blue stretch linen for the exam blazer. It'll be wonderful to work with and be pretty with pretty much every detail. I was tempted by a matching skai leather for the collar, but decided against it. I need less stress and less headaches on the exam day, so skai leather is OUT.
The blazer I'm making for the assignment will be a winter-blazer, with full interfacing, lining and made from tweed. The exam blazer will be my summer blazer, and I bought 5 meters of fabric so I can later make a pair of trousers or a skirt to have a full outfit.
Once home, I sorted through a ton of buttons that were stashed in an old sewing box I was gifted by Tyldak weeks ago, since I had nothing better to do (*snort*). Some old lady diligently cut buttons off old shirts and suits and coats and saved all of them. And we had a frantic half-hour search for my pencil box and rulers and then I adjusted the blazer block and drafted a two-piece sleeve to match.
After Eisirt went off to work, I traced the basic block and cut a muslin, pre-heated the oven, and showered while my single portion lasagna was cooking. Around eight o'clock, I was finished with the muslin of my blazer and I hadn't sewn a single stitch on the shirt, but I did have a blazer muslin and the pattern finished and a good inventory of buttons.
Then I took a couple of selfies of the blazer block and my Harvest Cardigan, which has been steadily growing since I figured out how to do the sleeves on Saturday. I'm now done with all the decreases of the left sleeve and needed to see how much farther to go straight down before starting on the garter stitch cuff. I've made ample notes in order to be able to reproduce this perfectly for the right sleeve (what could go wrong?!)
No wobbles, no bobbles. I wish my waist always looked like this.
I'm aiming for 17 cm more, which makes the hem drape 2cm over my wrists. You can't imagine what a luxury too-long sleeves are for someone for whom normal longsleeves are ALWAYS this length. If it fluffs out too much by blocking or washing, I can always take some off.
The hem is also still on the cable, awaiting to see how much yarn I have left after the sleeves so I can use most of it up.
José checked my blazer block today -- it's all good, although I measured the armscye wrong -- and we then fitted the muslin, which fits really well. I've made some notes about hem height and lapel start, and a few darts for the back were pinned. So I can start on a new sleeve pattern and start on the blazer design when I want. Progress!
New plan!
Finish the shirt by Monday, so I can hand it in.
Make a start on the blazer pattern. I want to copy elements of men's suits like the buttonhole in the lapel, and the breast pocket for a kerchief. I am hoping for a timeless, herringbone tweed masterpiece with faux suede collar and elbow patches.
