Finished!

Well, the red nightmare jacket is finished.  It's OK, but only OK.  I don't love it and I'm not sure why.  It gave me a lot of trouble.  Although I've done a fair amount of garment-making over the years and there was a period many years ago where I made almost all my clothes, I still need a pattern.  All I wanted was a simple jacket with no front fastening and a stand collar.  I went through every pattern book there is and couldn't find what I wanted.  So I combined two patterns I had used before and that was where the problem started. I ended up with a mandarin collar instead of a stand collar, for one thing.

I do like the fabric and all my French knots and I will wear it at some time, but it is kind of dressy.


 

Here is a jacket I made several years ago using a Lorraine Torrence pattern and Cherrywood fabric.  Her patterns are rather complicated, but if you follow her directions to the T, they work.  I even like the way it fits. I know it looks very boxy here, but it does look nice on. I had those leaf buttons in my button stash and found them after I decided to do the leaf motif on the free motion quilting.

And here is the back.

I did some free motion quilting on the panels using heavy Jeans Stitch thread.

Here is another Lorraine Torrence pattern and again I used Cherrywood fabrics.  It was another tricky pattern, but I loved the way it came out.  I found those hand (and one foot) buttons at Houston and dyed them to go with the fabric.

                                                       And the back of the vest.


I still have to hem the sleeves of the red jacket, but other than that I AM DONE and don't think I'll be doing any garment sewing for while.  Tomorrow after Church I plan to spend the day playing with the Gelli plate I bought In Houston and haven't even opened yet.  Hopefully I'll have something to show when I'm done.

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