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This coral wool coating is so soft, and such a pretty colour. At the Job Warehouse sale it was one of the bolts carried out of the shop to make room for people to enter (yes really). I nabbed it fast as wool in pretty colours isn't easy to find and this is a favourite. As a part bolt it cost me all of $2. There was only 2 metres of it so I think I've done well to cut a knee length hooded coat from it. The sleeves are pieced and the back is reverse nap, but I managed to keep the fronts, hood and upper sleeves the right way up. The creamy grey/pink wool is cabbage from the Netherlandish overdress I made last year. I had taken it to the stash busting market but it didn't sell. Somehow in the process of putting it away, it ended up next to the coral wool and they suddenly announced what they wanted to be.
I've run a wide spaced prick stitch on the edges where the cream and coral meet. I'm pleased with this, it gives a nice gentle control without the hard tortured compression line that machine top stitching would make. I'm not completely pleased with the pockets. They are set a bit low and perhaps I should have sewn them on buy hand. They would also sit better if I hadn't had to piece them but piecing was the option available and I wasn't in the mood for welt pockets.
Maiden voyage tomorrow methinks.
Costs:
coral wool $2 (full retail would be more like $80)
cream wool nil (it's cabbage, that doesn't count)
lining~ 2.6m @ $2/m so $5.20 (full retail ~ $52)
interfacing ~$2
sewing thread ~$4 (three different colours so hard to tell quite how much was consumed)
toggle string thread ~ $1.50 (bought from a clearance basket years ago)
toggles $22.60. These I had to go buy new and they were not easy to find. Buttonmania had the goods though.
So I have a lovely new coat for <$35 and some days of work. All from stash except the toggles, which caused most of the cost but I was being fussy about the colour.
I made a belt for it too but I'm unconvinced whether I like that or not. Makes it look too dressing gownish.
I've run a wide spaced prick stitch on the edges where the cream and coral meet. I'm pleased with this, it gives a nice gentle control without the hard tortured compression line that machine top stitching would make. I'm not completely pleased with the pockets. They are set a bit low and perhaps I should have sewn them on buy hand. They would also sit better if I hadn't had to piece them but piecing was the option available and I wasn't in the mood for welt pockets.
Maiden voyage tomorrow methinks.
Costs:
coral wool $2 (full retail would be more like $80)
cream wool nil (it's cabbage, that doesn't count)
lining~ 2.6m @ $2/m so $5.20 (full retail ~ $52)
interfacing ~$2
sewing thread ~$4 (three different colours so hard to tell quite how much was consumed)
toggle string thread ~ $1.50 (bought from a clearance basket years ago)
toggles $22.60. These I had to go buy new and they were not easy to find. Buttonmania had the goods though.
So I have a lovely new coat for <$35 and some days of work. All from stash except the toggles, which caused most of the cost but I was being fussy about the colour.
I made a belt for it too but I'm unconvinced whether I like that or not. Makes it look too dressing gownish.