When my posts get started with the word “ultimate”, it means that I have made something really exceptional. For a while now I have been wanting to work on jackets. There is a good stack of awesome wool suiting and coating fabrics in my stash, weather is becoming colder with each passing week, so IContinue reading “Ultimate wool jacket”
Category Archives: Difficult
Blue ribbon dress
It might as well have been a wedding dress. Apart that it isn’t! Mind you, I don’t need one – 19 years on I still have one of my two wedding dresses, and still am able to fit in it 🙂 So why this intro, you might think. Well, I could easily have made aContinue reading “Blue ribbon dress”
Evergreen jacket
I wrote in few previous posts, how much I was dreading to start this project. And when finally I convinced myself to stop procrastinating, and face my fears head on, it just rolled ahead. It was a long project, almost a month long, which is only fair. But it was also a very smooth project.Continue reading “Evergreen jacket”
How I conquered the coat (and S1254 pattern review)
So this project was an apogee of my not-so-long sewing career! I now can say that it ended up being beautiful and apparently very warm coat – when we made some of the below photos, it was terribly windy and cold, but I felt cozy and comfortable in it. So all is very well inContinue reading “How I conquered the coat (and S1254 pattern review)”
Giedre Style 