Wheeeeeee!

[soldiergrrrl]

I have a new cloak.  I started it yesterday and finished it tonight.  It needs a clasp, but other than that, it's done.  It weighs a ton and if I say I'm cold in this thing, you'd better find the penguins because they're gonna be around.  I'll post pictures later, but it's another one down for the A&S50.  This one was half stash, and half new

Comments

[deafelis]

Whee. :) What kind of pattern and fabric did you use?

[soldiergrrrl]

I used a Simplicity pattern and some upholstery fabric I had laying around. It's all dirt colored, but you know...that's maybe not such a bad thing. ;-)

[soldiergrrrl]

There's a badly shopped picture of it up now.

[deafelis]

MMM, yay. That looks warm. :) That's almost exactly the kind of thing I want to make for myself. It hasn't happened yet mostly because I couldn't find fabric I liked before GW, and haven't had time since then.

[piroshki]

Well? Let's see it, then!

[soldiergrrrl]

It's up. It's a badly shopped photo, to cut out the background but it's there!

[piroshki]

Ahh, you see, that's the good thing about being a really LOUSY photographer. We're so glad we didn't decapitate, hemicorporectomate, or otherwise occlude altogether, that we don't care about the background!

Looks nice. And warm. I need a cloak, too, but mine's going to end up styled several hundred years later than yours.

[madamekat]

Great job! It's so great to use Stash for projects :D

[soldiergrrrl]

It's funny, but I'm finding the "stash A&S50" to be a lot of fun, and challenging. I know I was blown away by your purple stash dress. :-D

[auxdarastrix]

That's very nice!

[soldiergrrrl]

Thank you! It weighs a ton, so I'd better not fall into any rivers while wearing it!

[quodscripsi]

What kind of cloak is it suppose to be?

[soldiergrrrl]

A warm one. ;-)

The fabric was some upholstery stuff I had around, and had exactly enough to do the cloak. The lining is a linen that I got on sale on JoAnn. (Honestly, thought...the upholstery stuff was a nightmare to sew. It just...unravelled if I looked at it funny. Thank GOD for sergers.)

The hood is totally fantasy, but I liked it better than a plain hood.

I needed one to keep me warm at events, and didn't really care too much about the authenticity of it. :-)

[piroshki]

Ahh...see, seams like that aren't so difficult on a straight-stitch either. The easiest way I've found to do it is draw the pattern onto the fabric, then sew a "safety" line about an eighth of an inch in from the cut line, using about 18 stitches to the inch. (24, if it's the chain-stitcher.) Then cut the fabric, and voilá, it's stabilised.

Or just flat-fell it. I flat fell any- and everything I can. (I am so lazy...)

[soldiergrrrl]

That's a really good idea to do that. I'll have to remember it because I have some other stuff that frays like mad. How do you keep the fabric from moving too much as you trace?

This stuff was all stringy on the back and fuzzy on the front and fell apart on me if I looked at it wrong, so I'm just glad it's done.

Next time? Wool. I am SO doing a cloak out of wool, dammit. ;-)