Thank you for the compliments on REC and my little model! He's thrilled with the outfit and was a lot of fun to photograph. He came up with most of the poses, while I had the harder part of coming up with the titles.
Well, it's been so long since I've really worked on my coat and posted about it, I can't even remember what post number this is. Suffice it to say, it has probably been at least a month since I've worked on it. Now that I'm staring October in the face, I suppose I'd better get it done. To be honest, I'm not real motivated to work on it, but it does need to get done.
So what to do when motivation is low? Work on an easy part, such as the sleeves:
This is what my husband saw when he walked into the studio the other night. "Very avant-garde, " he said, "I'm not sure how that coat is going to work with just sleeves." Since when did he become Tim Gunn?!? At least he didn't walk away telling me to "make it work" and that I only had until midnight to get it done.The sleeves weren't hard to assemble, so I then tackled the lining:
Now I have sleeves *and* a lining. Most of my procrastination on working on the coat was due to having to find hair canvas. I finally found an excuse to go down to Martin's to look for such a product and lo and behold they're getting rid of all their apparel and related notions, including interfacing. All they had was the fusible hair canvas, so that's what I bought. Now that I have it, maybe I can get some more done on the coat!Parting Shot: Puzzle. What do you do with a sick 7 year old who is home from school for the day? Puzzles for one. With plenty of medicine and rest, he was ready for a puzzle this afternoon.
4 comments:
Beautiful lining, Summerset. I hope the motivation comes soon for this very promissing coat.
I hope your son gets better soon!
A slow start is at least a start. Hope your little cowboy' feeling better today. :]
You have inspired me to finally get going on my coat muslin. I know what you mean about not being motivated to do it. But I really want it done, so go figure.
I have been fretting over the hair canvas situation as well and was planning on purchasing online as I am out. Is Martin's getting rid of all their apparel fabric? I find that amazing and pray I am not missing a good sale. I won't be able to get down there for another month.
Your coat is coming along wonderfully. I am enjoying following along.
I've been suffering from extreme lack of time, hence I'm so behind on my coat (and I wanted to finish all my summer projects before getting to the coat, because I can't deal with more than one ongoing project at a time). This weekend I had a little time for sewing and I managed to cut all the fabric and underlining pieces... Now I'm thread tracing. It will take some time because I'll be lucky if I get an hour a day for sewing during the week. I've been getting home really late and there's little time left to sew...
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