Muslin n° 2 of Butterick 9214.
Although I haven't found the right fabric and spring is coming, I am constantly thinking about my future beautiful red winter coat as I wear the house coat every morning. I also thought I could do a test run with the fabulous tweed I found, but I changed my mind when I saw this. I'll come up with a better project for it.
I nicknamed it the Frankenpattern because of all the bits and pieces that I have taken everywhere to make all the changes I wanted.
I changed the sleeves and the armscye (Burda 08/2010 #113) so I could wear a sweater underneath, and after seeing this Derek Lam shawl collar hood, I added one as well (Burda 2694). It does rain a lot in the winter here, it might come in handy.
I lifted the skirt from the Vogue 3000, because all the gathers at the waist on the original were a bit much for a coat. I have some tweaking to do on the sash and I have put some side pockets which you don't see here.
I still have issues with the sleeves, the ease need to be distributed better but, I am not entirely dissatisfied with the muslin apart from the fact that it's way too small for a winter coat. How do I add the necessary ease? How much? Where? I cut through the middle and widen it? I don't know how to do this, so I'll take advice if you have any, or a link.
Just in case you are wondering, I used this most excellent tartan for a muslin because it's another op-shop find, wool with a high polyester content, that was cheaper to use than real muslin fabric and, I knew I would get a better general idea.
Now, I am having second though about wasting it, seeing that warts and all this is wearable, so I might take it apart, line it and have my own Vivienne Westwood moment. What do you think?
Although I haven't found the right fabric and spring is coming, I am constantly thinking about my future beautiful red winter coat as I wear the house coat every morning. I also thought I could do a test run with the fabulous tweed I found, but I changed my mind when I saw this. I'll come up with a better project for it.
I nicknamed it the Frankenpattern because of all the bits and pieces that I have taken everywhere to make all the changes I wanted.
I changed the sleeves and the armscye (Burda 08/2010 #113) so I could wear a sweater underneath, and after seeing this Derek Lam shawl collar hood, I added one as well (Burda 2694). It does rain a lot in the winter here, it might come in handy.
I lifted the skirt from the Vogue 3000, because all the gathers at the waist on the original were a bit much for a coat. I have some tweaking to do on the sash and I have put some side pockets which you don't see here.
I still have issues with the sleeves, the ease need to be distributed better but, I am not entirely dissatisfied with the muslin apart from the fact that it's way too small for a winter coat. How do I add the necessary ease? How much? Where? I cut through the middle and widen it? I don't know how to do this, so I'll take advice if you have any, or a link.
Just in case you are wondering, I used this most excellent tartan for a muslin because it's another op-shop find, wool with a high polyester content, that was cheaper to use than real muslin fabric and, I knew I would get a better general idea.
Now, I am having second though about wasting it, seeing that warts and all this is wearable, so I might take it apart, line it and have my own Vivienne Westwood moment. What do you think?
