Cutting is always the worst part of any sewing project in my opinion. It takes forever, it's tedious, and it's damn scary! I can't get away from checking 2 or 3 times before cutting. But then, my dad always said "measure twice, cut once!"
After a whole day of washing and drying and ironing my material, I was finally ready to start my first sewing project of 2010: Vogue pattern #V7979 - a fully lined double breasted car-coat length pea coat. YAY! I love coats - I'm addicted to them. Coats make me happy, so happy that my hubby cut me off from buying anymore of them. Grrr. And so I'll make them - he didn't say anything about me making my own - mwa ha ha ha ha!
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| Pattern A (purple) |
So, I decided to line the coat with this gorgeous deep-purplish maroon crepe-backed satin - nice and heavy for cold winter days and nights. Gorgeous to work with, it's my favorite type of satin. I like it's weight for handling - it doesn't shift and slide as much when I'm working with it.
Patience is a virtue I don't really possess - so pinning and cutting is my least favorite thing to do during a project. It's something you can't rush, either.
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| Pinning and cutting SUCKS! |
I started with interfacing and then moved to cutting out the lining pieces - then on to the tedious job of transferring the pattern markings to the fabric in a delicate manner so as not to mark the right-side of the fabric.
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| Coat lining - all cut! |
Then I moved on to pinning and cutting the outer fabric of the coat - a herringbone pattern baby-pink wool. I LOVE this material. Nice and thick and fuzzy - although just laying it out I had issues with dog hair attaching itself to it! I'll have to keep a lint roller handy at all times with this baby.
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| The fabrics du jour... |
It's an awful lot of work to pin such a huge piece of fabric; I ended up moving to the floor where my fabric would stay put - I was trying to work on my dining room table and it kept slipping and sliding all over the place. Trying to keep the dog away from delicate onion paper and nice clean wool while mom was on the ground was a bit of a chore. He thought it was play time.
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| The chaos of pinning mass amounts of wool... |
So, then it was time to cut and mark the patterns. Again, tedious!
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| Cutting! |
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| Getting ready to mark that material! |
Well, on to the sewing now! YIKES! I'm already freaking out about the buttonholes - I've never done them before. I've done a lot of things - zippers, clasps, corsets - but never buttons. And it's one of the last things I do, so it'll be a nice thing to f*ck-up right at the end. EEPS!
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