Geisha jacket: finally done!
We started this in November, but with everything that was going on, homework wasn't very high on my list of priorities. It's kind of hard to get around to it when you're moving for the second time in six months.
All excuses aside, my teacher hopes I can finish my school by the end of next year, and I have absolutely no intentions of taking another eight months for the next project. I need to make a few more jackets (which I never wear anymore) before I'm even allowed to take my exam, so... chop chop!
Tiny ladder stitches! (Needle just added for composition, not actual stitch size!)
Teacher Helen had promised me a month or two ago that I would be done with the jacket in two lessons, but it turned out to take a little longer than that. I had done some things wrong (because she forgot to tell me to do something else first) which needed fixing. I was so done with this project that I just wanted to frelling finish it already. So yesterday when I got to school, I pinned the hem in place and asked her how to sew the damned thing.
Truth be told, it was pretty much the only thing that still needed doing, but if I had asked her "what next" she'd have taken a closer look at the project and would have found something that needed doing differently, dangerously or more diligently (or damnedly) and I'd have never finished the damned thing.
Hemming it took me most of the lesson. I'm quite fast when working by hand, but it was a full hem plus both sleeves, all done by hand. And if I'd pressed the hem of the lining less fastidiously, it would have probably been easier. But done is done and no crying over how much time it took, since here it is:
Please excuse the tiny phonecam picture!
"Geisha jacket" from printed and solid-colour linen with orange piping. The geisha mid-front is continued from either side of the zip. Two welt pockets with orange welts. Home-drawn pattern, mostly hand-stitched, but lots of work done on the machine too. Pattern placement ensures most major features are repeated on the other half of the jacket at the same height. (It says "Tea Blanc" on my shoulderblades and "En chine" down both sides of my spine!)
Next up: grey panther.
All excuses aside, my teacher hopes I can finish my school by the end of next year, and I have absolutely no intentions of taking another eight months for the next project. I need to make a few more jackets (which I never wear anymore) before I'm even allowed to take my exam, so... chop chop!
Tiny ladder stitches! (Needle just added for composition, not actual stitch size!)
Teacher Helen had promised me a month or two ago that I would be done with the jacket in two lessons, but it turned out to take a little longer than that. I had done some things wrong (because she forgot to tell me to do something else first) which needed fixing. I was so done with this project that I just wanted to frelling finish it already. So yesterday when I got to school, I pinned the hem in place and asked her how to sew the damned thing.
Truth be told, it was pretty much the only thing that still needed doing, but if I had asked her "what next" she'd have taken a closer look at the project and would have found something that needed doing differently, dangerously or more diligently (or damnedly) and I'd have never finished the damned thing.
Hemming it took me most of the lesson. I'm quite fast when working by hand, but it was a full hem plus both sleeves, all done by hand. And if I'd pressed the hem of the lining less fastidiously, it would have probably been easier. But done is done and no crying over how much time it took, since here it is:
Please excuse the tiny phonecam picture!
"Geisha jacket" from printed and solid-colour linen with orange piping. The geisha mid-front is continued from either side of the zip. Two welt pockets with orange welts. Home-drawn pattern, mostly hand-stitched, but lots of work done on the machine too. Pattern placement ensures most major features are repeated on the other half of the jacket at the same height. (It says "Tea Blanc" on my shoulderblades and "En chine" down both sides of my spine!)
Next up: grey panther.