For a change this was a fast moving fabric and pattern fast fashion? The fabric was ordered on 29 November, received on 7 December, cut up on 12 December with sewing starting on 15 December.

The pattern was purchased on 17 November.

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Almost unheard of in my sewing life for two recent purchases to come together so quickly. The finished garment I’m not sure how long after Christmas you can wear your Christmas dress.

As you can see from me posing in the sunshine by the grapevine on 27 December I was a bit ambivalent, wearing it with my Camper sneakers rather than my red shoes.

Can you wear a dress covered in baubles and presents past Twelfth Night? Does wearing it past 5 January cause bad luck like leaving your Christmas decorations up?

Although there is also a superstition that Christmas decorations not taken down by Twelfth Night should be left up until Candlemas Day 2nd February and then taken down.

Don’t think I’ll be wearing this dress over the next month it is now safely ensconced in the wardrobe until December. Tidied away like the Christmas decorations.

Posted by tpotty28 at 2 comments: Email This BlogThis! Labels: stylearcLibertyFabricsdresswoven fabric. This post is slightly cheating as the coat was made way back in from some fabulous fabric hand dyed by a group of local quilters Cheryl Comfort, Catherine McDonald and Chris Tait.

I was motivated to write this blog post because one of the sewers I follow has this pattern on a shortlist for her winter coat and there is only one review for it on Pattern Review.

Even though this coat is now six years old it is still a favourite and attracts lots of comments. On its first outing it went for a show and tell visit to the fabric dyers at Crafty Christchurch where it was photographed by a journalist from our local free lifestyle magazine Metropol and even featured in a tiny picture on the events page.

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If I was really dedicated to documenting my sewing I would still have a copy of the magazine picture posted in my scrapbook but alas I am not and the magazine has long since left the building.

The photos on the dress form were taken a few years ago pre-blog when I had a long session of photographing my me-made clothes as a record of my sewing adventures, as I realised how much I enjoyed flicking through the photo album of my embroidery yet hadn’t bothered photographing my sewing.

The photographs of the coat being worn were taken a couple of weeks ago on a very sunny Saturday. The fabrics are a hand-dyed red with a matching indigo shibori overdyed fabric.

Two one metre pieces of fabric were purchased at the Crafty Christchurch event in the Geodome in Hagley Park. I also bought a metre piece of indigo dyed fabric to make a belt but then used a purchased belt already in my possession.

Only Catherine McDonald Mallee Textiles of the original group of quilters still dyes fabric for sale, which is a shame as they created some fabulous fabrics.

The hand-dyed cotton was underlined with an heirloom cotton batting that is almost like flannelette but more loosely woven. The lining is a navy blue coloured silk twill.

Vogue’s description is very loose fitting, unlined, double breasted coat has front extending into collar, shoulder pads, dropped shoulders, top stitched darts,side front pockets and seams, stitched hems, three-piece sleeves with button tab, thread loops, raw edge finish and overlapped seams.

Purchased belt. The suggested fabrics are: lightweight melton, boiled wool, wool double knit. Lining to cover the shoulder pads and for the pockets: china silk, crepe de chine.

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With my normal disregard for the designer I made my coat in a lovely cotton fabric, sewed the seams as normal right side together and added a lining.

As Vogue indicates in the description this pattern is very loose fitting. The size 10 provided the amount of ease I wanted whilst based on the pattern sizing I should have sewn size No wonder a belt is needed.

The other alterations were to lengthen the bodice 1″ above the lengthen and shorten line. Use fisheye darts for the front and back outer garment pieces instead of the open darts ending at the waistline.

As I wanted to use two fabrics, one for the upper body and one for the skirt a line was marked on each of the pattern pieces with the seam allowance being added directly on the fabric as it was cut out.

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New pattern pieces were made for the front lining from the front pattern piece minus the front facing. The back pattern piece was used as is but placed on the fabric fold with extra fabric at centre back to make a pleat for ease of movement.

The side front pattern piece was used for both the outer garment fabric and the lining. The sewing instructions assume you are using a fabric that doesn’t fray and that the coat is unlined.

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As neither of these is true for my coat I followed the sewing instructions but adapted them where necessary. Seams were sewn right sides together rather than overlapped, darts were sewn together not slashed and overlapped.

As the coat was lined I didn’t bother binding the edges of the pockets but I did make belt loops of the appropriate size for my RTW belt.

The pattern description mentions thread loops which appear to be for the belt but the pattern directions don’t mention the making of thread loops.

For my wide belt thread loops would have been inadequate, proper fabric belt loops were needed! The lining fabric was perfect for the covered snaps which were extremely easy to make using the pattern instructions.

Ingenious to put both circles of fabric over the ball half of the snap, then snap the ball and socket sections together so the circles of silk are held perfectly in place whilst you draw up the gathers and fasten off – one circle for each half of the snap.

The hole in the silk was made using an awl rather than cutting the silk. In conclusion This was a fabulous garment to sew that has stood the test of time and still brings me joy.

Now that I have been reminded about this pattern I quite fancy it in a nice wool as per the suggested fabrics but lengthened a few inches to lower calf length.

Simone was talking about adding kid coats. Neon pink extreme cut out lace body quilt pattern I know the safety warnings are a downer, but theyre important especially with these kids. Most people loved it.

I impulsively purchased a linen top in what to me is a pale orange colour they call it vanillathat has an extreme high low hem.

The high is so high it makes it a cropped top but I envisaged it being worn over the orange dress in my imaginary orange summer wardrobe.

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I wanted to use Vogue for my orange dress but then I bought a sleeveless knit dress for a work event no time to make anything which left me pondering an alternative fabric – enter this lovely Rebecca Taylor ponte like knit.

The orange wardrobe may become a Stitcher’s Guild SWAPa yearly wardrobe sewing contest to sew eleven garments that all work together.

This year the rules are extremely permissive which is what tempts me but I’m not very motivated by deadlines in my sewing life.

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SWAP sewing happens over a four month period, beginning during my Christmas holiday so eleven garments should be extremely doable.

All I need to do is commit!! The finished garment This dress is fantabulous for twirling, as well as feeling lovely and swishy when you walk.

For the twirling action shots a large area of garden was needed and I wasn’t entirely steady on my feet but it was fun. The Rebecca Taylor cotton poly knit has a lovely brushed back that makes it snuggly to wear but on the downside not suitable for a really hot summer’s day.

The fabric came from Silhouette Patterns and was bought to be paired with some leather also from Silhouette Patterns to make a trench like coat. The leather is more of a black brown colour than I anticipated and the Rebecca Taylor knit was completely the wrong colour so on to plan B Vogue is copyrighted so an oldie but a goodie.

A few years before I got back into sewing I had a big clear out of my patterns and most of them went to my local Bernina Sewing Centre. The ones I kept were mostly Vogue Designer patterns as well as a few other Vogue patterns that I felt were classics.

This is one of the survivors.

The pattern ones you iron and it looks like pokemon or a emoji or whatever Radio flyer double intertube sleds Fisher Price bubble mowers Mega bloks sets. We would crawl around all over the floor picking up the stray tinsel bits, pretending to be anteaters looking for food. Neon pink extreme cut out lace body quilt pattern Only Catherine McDonald Mallee Textiles of the original group of quilters still dyes fabric for sale, which is a shame as they created some fabulous fabrics.

It was a very interesting exercise to look at the pile of patterns and decide which to keep and which to discard especially to find the vast majority of those retained were Vogue.

Nowadays I hardly even look at the offerings from the other big four pattern companies. Discussing the age of the pattern with a colleague and the fact that it had survived a cull she immediately guessed it was a Vogue pattern.

What is it about the Vogue patterns that make them keepers? This pattern would be fine to use for a woven version but there was too much ease for a knit fabric.

Whilst still deep into my sewing theme of the Minnie Mouse red white and black wardrobe I found a fun fabric to make a fabulous winter coat. In all honesty it was a good marketing ploy as whilst I had been hesitant to buy it all full price as soon as the discount came along I had hit the buy button before rational thought had any chance of intervening.

The finished garment Spring has very much sprung with the fading blossoms on the crab apple tree providing the back drop for my new winter coat.

Maybe after a few months resting in the wardrobe I will have got over the initial lack of love for the finished coat. Its redeeming feature is the wonderful lining.

You might notice there are no pictures of it buttoned up. That is because it doesn’t have buttons yet. I have the buttons just can’t decide how I want to make the closure.

Favourite idea at the moment is to have a leather fabric loop rather than a buttonhole. Will wait for next winter before I make my final choice. In the pictures it looked completely fabulous.

When it arrived I was a bit disappointed with how flimsy the knit backing was and to me not strong enough to support the faux fur with any longevity.

There were also a few flaws in the fabric not that I discovered this until many months later when I was cutting out. Despite this I was still excited to make a winter coat with it.

The only demotivating factor was that we weren’t having a winter, sure we had more grey days than normal but the crisp blue sky winter days were few and far between.

Posted by tpotty28 at 4 comments: Email This BlogThis! Labels: SewingWorkshopcoatMinnie Mouse wardrobe. I recently got to see a fabulous embroidery exhibition by the Canterbury Embroiderers’ Guild, something they do biennially.

The plan was to do this post early enough to give others the opportunity to see this exhibition, however on my first visit to the exhibition I just soaked up the talent without taking any pictures and only got back to the exhibition to take photos on the second to last day it was open.

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I am pretty sure I didn’t photograph all of the prize winners but here are the ones that particularly interested me. Artist’s statement: Modern interpretation of a 17th century design by Thomas Trevelyon.

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Worked in pure silk, metallic threads, beads and sequins. The bobbin lace is worked in gold thread. The cap is lined with silk brocade and finished with a handmade silk tassel.

Category: Traditional Design source: Thomas Trevelyon Technique: Surface stitchery and goldwork Surface stitchery is any form of freestyle embroidery in which the pattern is worked by the use of decorative stitches and laid threads.

Goldwork originating in Asia, is the art of embroidery using metal threads. Once accessible only to the wealthy, goldwork embroidery was used historically to adorn ecclesiastical textiles, military uniforms, and clothing and textiles of the nobility.