(to quote Monty Python.) Although I am still weaving at least one tea towel a day on the blue striped warp, I am also sewing a jacket for my son. He's a musician and has a big gig coming up the end of July. He wants to look uber cool on stage and asked me to make him a neon green jacket. As you may imagine, pure neon green isn't just jumping off the shelves in fabric stores, but I did find a batik type piece of quilt fabric that is neon green with little tan squiggly looking things on it.
So, that's what I've been doing this week - sewing the neon jacket. I'm a little over half way finished. It's a very loose fitting jacket, since this is the only jacket pattern I have left, so I interfaced the cotton with an iron-on interfacing, and am also lining it with a cotton drapery lining fabric, which I happened to have already. I made the shoulder pads.
I'll be happy when it's done, and it's not taxing my patience as much as I thought it would. I sew for a couple hours and put it down - go pull weeds or something, and weave when I can.
I'm glad I still had this one pattern. I've found it's getting difficult to find a pattern for things like a men's jacket. The patterns I find are quite simplified skirts, dresses, blouses. I wish I had kept more of my patterns.
My mom talked about when she was growing up and how patterns were so rare. She said if anyone in the community somehow got a pattern, it would make the rounds and everyone made a copy. I hope it won't get to that again, but I'm not sure. It's a shame to lose the art of sewing your own clothes.
I'm still looking at overshot patterns, and thinking, and thinking.
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