Finished Objects: comics blogging and Fielder top in warm wool/linen mix
After finishing B's raincoat (which was a bit of a tour de force) I wanted to be sure to do a bit more bloggery-pokery, otherwise I'd lose the impetus entirely. I've been slightly fitfully posting about the IPC title Sandie, which ran a little earlier than Jinty and not for as long (only 69 issues). This was because I had a lucky break with someone wanting to sell her mother's complete run of the title, 'make me an offer', and even better, she was travelling down past Oxford on a convenient weekend so I didn't even need to pay for postage! But I'd only got as far as posting about the first few issues since that time.
Well, I got on with a few more once my brain was released from sewing, and even got to the stage where I was ready to post about the first story that was finished in the title - a historical story called "Little Lady Nobody", featuring a mistreated heiress. Now, in these old comics the question of attribution is always tricky. Sometimes you can clearly tell who the artist is, sometimes you think you can but it is open to dispute, and sometimes it's just not known at all. I thought that "Little Lady Nobody" looked rather like it might be by an artist called Roy Newby, who drew some historical stories in Jinty; but on further research and asking around it seems not. It did result in a productive back-and-forth with Roy Newby's two children: see more on the blog post here, including a lovely little pencil sketch by him of his daughter as a child.
So having got the comics blogging out of the way (all right, actually the Newby post took a little longer to get ready and it's only just gone up today), I went back to the sewing again. For Christmas I asked for some sewing-related presents - cloth, patterns, and the like - and this is the result of one of those presents:
Merchant and Mills have got some lovely fabric and some nice patterns, but the photography on their website always shows the results in monochrome crumpled gloomy artisticness, from which I can tell very little about whether I would actually like the finished object or not. But on a recent M&M blogpost they highlighted someone who really likes this pattern and who - hallelujah! - was photographed in real daylight, wearing well-lit versions of this item, which looked hugely more attractive as a result.
It's very comfy and wearable, but I'm sure there are things I need to change the next time I make this. The fabric is gorgeous and the colours are great, but I'm not really sure if this is the right size - I made a size 14, based on the body measurements given, but the shoulders don't feel quite right. At the same time the back is a little tight and the biceps definitely so, so I will try a broad back adjustment and creating a looser sleeve, perhaps alongside a smaller size so that the shoulders are better. Finally, something did go a bit odd with the lower back, which was very baggy - if I'd spotted it earlier I might have put some darts in or something, but as it was I just did a slightly bodgy pleat:
Which is fine. Some of that might just be because the cloth was a bit self-willed, being a rather bouncy mix of wool and linen - I'll use what should hopefully be a better-behaved stable cloth next time and see how it comes out. Experimentation!
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Well, I got on with a few more once my brain was released from sewing, and even got to the stage where I was ready to post about the first story that was finished in the title - a historical story called "Little Lady Nobody", featuring a mistreated heiress. Now, in these old comics the question of attribution is always tricky. Sometimes you can clearly tell who the artist is, sometimes you think you can but it is open to dispute, and sometimes it's just not known at all. I thought that "Little Lady Nobody" looked rather like it might be by an artist called Roy Newby, who drew some historical stories in Jinty; but on further research and asking around it seems not. It did result in a productive back-and-forth with Roy Newby's two children: see more on the blog post here, including a lovely little pencil sketch by him of his daughter as a child.
So having got the comics blogging out of the way (all right, actually the Newby post took a little longer to get ready and it's only just gone up today), I went back to the sewing again. For Christmas I asked for some sewing-related presents - cloth, patterns, and the like - and this is the result of one of those presents:
Merchant and Mills have got some lovely fabric and some nice patterns, but the photography on their website always shows the results in monochrome crumpled gloomy artisticness, from which I can tell very little about whether I would actually like the finished object or not. But on a recent M&M blogpost they highlighted someone who really likes this pattern and who - hallelujah! - was photographed in real daylight, wearing well-lit versions of this item, which looked hugely more attractive as a result.
It's very comfy and wearable, but I'm sure there are things I need to change the next time I make this. The fabric is gorgeous and the colours are great, but I'm not really sure if this is the right size - I made a size 14, based on the body measurements given, but the shoulders don't feel quite right. At the same time the back is a little tight and the biceps definitely so, so I will try a broad back adjustment and creating a looser sleeve, perhaps alongside a smaller size so that the shoulders are better. Finally, something did go a bit odd with the lower back, which was very baggy - if I'd spotted it earlier I might have put some darts in or something, but as it was I just did a slightly bodgy pleat:
Which is fine. Some of that might just be because the cloth was a bit self-willed, being a rather bouncy mix of wool and linen - I'll use what should hopefully be a better-behaved stable cloth next time and see how it comes out. Experimentation!
This entry was originally posted at https://jinty.dreamwidth.org/1045399.html. Please comment there using OpenID.