White robe/coat - done!
Oct. 14th, 2006 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzWell, it has been a productive day. We got up around ten, did groceries at C1000, which involved NoKey cycling a very heavily loaded bycicle and me walking next to him with a backpack filled with veggies. It was good doing groceries at our 'regular' store again, the Konmar is such a bitch, and before that is transformed into an AH, we'll be a month along at least.
After that, NoKey went into the city to pick some of his regular shampoo up at the Koopgoot, and I got to work on the pattern of my new coat. The front panel is secretly also the side-front and side-back panels, and is shaped by a pleat and a hidden princess-seam. This involves having the panel 140 cm wide at the bottom, so if you have a napped fabric it's hell. Cut out one piece, cut out the other and damned better remember to put the piece upside down.
Anyway.
It worked. I added some things from this pattern: the hood and the outer sleeves from the picture (view B). Of course the sleebs are a bit shorter for me, but I love how Vogue and McCalls are interchangable concerning sleeve and armhole.
We also played some basketball until the muscles in my knee gave out. I scored dude!
But, the main thing I learned about the pattern is that it works. The princess seams aren't even that high up, normally my boobs are in the wrong place, and the hem needs only to be lengthened by 5 cm for it to touch the ground. Of course, the lace I used for the mock-up is a lot stretchier than the wool I will use on the 'real' coat, but still. The folds, the tucks and the pleats just work. So that is a good thing. I am now all bouncy to start on my new winter coat (though I still have two).
After that, NoKey went into the city to pick some of his regular shampoo up at the Koopgoot, and I got to work on the pattern of my new coat. The front panel is secretly also the side-front and side-back panels, and is shaped by a pleat and a hidden princess-seam. This involves having the panel 140 cm wide at the bottom, so if you have a napped fabric it's hell. Cut out one piece, cut out the other and damned better remember to put the piece upside down.
Anyway.
It worked. I added some things from this pattern: the hood and the outer sleeves from the picture (view B). Of course the sleebs are a bit shorter for me, but I love how Vogue and McCalls are interchangable concerning sleeve and armhole.
We also played some basketball until the muscles in my knee gave out. I scored dude!
But, the main thing I learned about the pattern is that it works. The princess seams aren't even that high up, normally my boobs are in the wrong place, and the hem needs only to be lengthened by 5 cm for it to touch the ground. Of course, the lace I used for the mock-up is a lot stretchier than the wool I will use on the 'real' coat, but still. The folds, the tucks and the pleats just work. So that is a good thing. I am now all bouncy to start on my new winter coat (though I still have two).
