Remember the hikaru jacket that I muslined back when I was 8 months pregnant?
I was so excited to work on it. I had David hold Joey for a few hours while I cut out the shell pieces, and then a few more hours while I cut out the lining pieces. This was back in the first month when we were both getting by on about 2 hours of sleep and “holding” meant “deal with this wailing infant” so it was a pretty big favor to ask! Well, after getting everything cut out I realized I still had to cut interfacing, and that I’d forgotten to cut the sleeve linings, and then I started having misgivings about the style of the jacket…and so the pieces ended up at the back of the closet and I moved on to less ambitious post-partum projects.
In my mind I think I had decided this was a spring jacket, and in honor of the season that promises to appear someday I dug out the pieces last weekend.
…and remembered how excited I was about this project! Both the shell and lining fabrics are bee-ooo-tee-ful, I found the perfect buttons at Mood, and I think I can fix the swayback issues without too much trouble.
So now the last lining pieces are cut, everything that needed interfacing is interfaced, and I’m ready to go:
I tried out a couple different colors of topstitching thread the other night. I’m leaning towards the yellow, but maybe white would be better. I think the tan is a little too dull but maybe I won’t think that when there’s a ton of it all over the jacket. Opinions?
Also wanted to say thanks to everyone who left comments on the paintings and style suggestions for my tapered pants. I do love colorful scarfs (and colorful shoes, though I wore those more when I lived in San Francisco). Colorful scarfs were in fact my gateway fabric, and are probably to blame for my current addiction. I do try to dress a little like my paintings, with a lot of mixed neutrals and small bits of color here and there. Anyway I thought I would post what I wore on Wednesday, which was inspired by seeing Carolyn’s autumnal colorblocking shortly before I got dressed that morning.
I guess this qualifies as made-by-me because I made the skirt and the t-shirt. The scarf was purchased specifically to complete this outfit but it turns out that a kelly-green scarf goes with all sorts of things. Who knew?
Elizabeth | 26-Mar-11 at 5:11 am | Permalink
I love the yellow topstitching as well! Looks like it will be a great jacket. Happy sewing!
Mary Nanna | 26-Mar-11 at 11:31 am | Permalink
Definitely the yellow topstitching – that jacket is going to look fabulous. I sewed 2 garments the first year of my son’s life – he didn’t sleep through the night until he was a year old and I was too tired to take anything creative on. How my life changed once he started sleeping at night and doing one lovely long sleep in the afternoon! (and then how it changed again when he dropped his afternoon sleep but at that point we invested in some quality tv watching time)
I was curious about this jacket after you posted about it so I followed the links through to Burdastyle and then I started to cruise their jacket section .. I then saw the Jolinda jacket and decided to download it and make it for the jacket sewalong… the instructions for it are the worst ever. At least the instructions in the magazine have been checked over by a translator – this reads as pure unadulterated google translate. If I can work out what ‘piping straps’ in relation to the pocket is, I’ll be set!
Lucy | 28-Mar-11 at 10:47 am | Permalink
Another vote for yellow!
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