The vintage coat project - Steps 1 and 2

Next steps for the coat!


The front and back pieces have darts.

I tought .. no problem!
























But I didn't use a fabric for interfacing but a light fabric like vlieseline.

And I asked me, how I would put the fabric and the interfacing pieces together .....

because both pieces have darts.

I don't know since when fabric like vlieseline exists... 
But I think vlieseline wasn't used in the sixties!

 

Finally I decided to iron at first the facing pieces with the fabric pieces together and than to sew the darts.



















Now I have to sew the darts!

See you soon for the next step!

The vintage coat project

I need a new coat!

No, it's wrong ... I would like have a brown coat :-)

We can find so many different coat pattern...
it's unbelievable! It's difficult to decide what sort of style!!!

but as I saw this pattern I knew it, I must sew it!!!


It's a vintage coat pattern from McCall from the sixties!

We can find a lot of double-breasted coat nowadays, so this coat is not so vintage! :-)

But the hat pattern is not including! :-(




Last year I became a wonderful present for my birthday from my friends : a voucher fabric!!!!
Yeah! :-)

So I choose a very nice wool fabric with cashmere in a dark brown color and I choose a nice rose lining.

As I opened the pattern envelope I discovered that the pattern have 23 pieces!!!
OMG!!!

Every piece has her pattern piece!!!
I mean every piece like lining or interfacing pieces.. that's why they are 23 pieces altogether!

So, I'm on the beginning from this coat sewing:

I have already cut the 10 fabric pieces!

 

I will relate how I proceed with this coat !!! :-)

The next skirts?

I have some fabric rests... hmm ... about 1 yrd.

It's not so much but enough for skirts!

I recovered this fabric by my mother, she wanted me to sew a skirt with it as I was 17! :-)
But I could sew this skirt one more time in in 20 years, it will be trendy again!

I love the colors : grey, orange and yellow: good combination!



And I have a rest orange lining! perfect!

 

I think I use this pattern for the tartan fabric: 

From Patrones issue N° 295  the skirt N°2

Here a picture from the pattern skirt:

a simple pattern : 2 pieces and belt facing
and lining pieces ( the same as the skirt)

I think: quick and easy to sew!










Another yard :

I bought a rest fabric :

A lightweight wool fabric with spandex in red
- a little bit dark red ...

I think I will use this skirt pattern by the Patrones issue 279


It's a lined short skirt (N° 14) from Designer Drykorn but I will made it longer...

Here are the instructions ( I don't speak spanish, but I will made it with my own way! :-)


 



And I already found the shoes for this skirt! :-)

And the last fabric yard

I bought last winter this rest fabric too:

a wool fabric with a cool 60' design :-)

But I don't know exactly how to sew with it...

I have a yard.

Enough for a sleeveless dress but perhaps the design is too "heavy" for a dress?

I found else a skirt pattern ( n°39) from Patrones too :

  

We can't see it at the picture but the skirt has two pleats at the waist belt... and I don't know how the fabric design will look like with two pleats.. even if they are small...

 

For this skirt and the red one I have rose-red lining!

Now... I must stop thinking about more eventualities...  :-)

I must start working! :-)    

The first will be the tartan skirt!

I will relate about it! :-)

Pattern modification project

I saw this dress on an european online shop and I fall in love with it!

An A-Line dress from Italian Designer Imperial with short raglan sleeves in a wool fabric.

The last piece on the online shop was a size 8 :-( too small for me!













I particulary love the sleeves!!!
Pleats from the sleeves at the neckline.


I could try to make it myself , or not?

I must find a pattern from a A-Line Dress with raglan dress and modify the sleeves pattern.

I maybe could use this pattern : Vogue 1150

I have begun to modify the sleeves but  they start lower as I thought.
At first I must modify it and then I can try to make modifications to have wider sleeves at the neckline!

Hmm... I'm curious about it!