{"id":285,"date":"2010-07-22T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=285"},"modified":"2010-07-22T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:56:47","slug":"its-all-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"It’s All About Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a mammoth couple of months of ‘business’ sewing, including five Christmas\/winter articles, a Valentine’s Day cross-stitch and more, I’m finally taking a bit of a break from ‘gotta-dos’ to sew some ‘wanna-dos’.<\/p>\n

Last night, I cut out the lining for my Ottobre raincoat<\/a>. Yes, yes, I know it’s taken me until now to get started on a project I’d sworn to undertake in the depths of winter, but cut me some slack…I had everything traced off and pre-washed. I just had other sewing that had to get done first.<\/p>\n

I’m using a really nice t-shirt knit for the lining. I’d been hmm-ing and haw-ing over what to use for the lining. You wouldn’t think white t-shirt knit would be difficult to locate but it was, surprisingly enough. I’d priced out some knits at a few of my usual suspects, because that what the pattern recommended, and the fabrics I found were either so cheap and thin or so outrageously priced that my fiscal conscience balked. <\/p>\n

Then, by chance, while I was in my favourite notion store, Nova Sewing Centre<\/a>, getting elastic, I saw a big bolt of white knit fabric on the shelf. They don’t carry a lot of fabric, so I hadn’t even thought of them originally – mostly it’s just linings and interfacings and such – but this was perfect. Nice weight, right shade of white and best of all? $3\/m!! What a score!<\/p>\n

Take that, you $29\/m over-priced knitwear fabric! Take that!<\/p>\n

So now, I’m going to be working on assembling the lining, using it as my muslin before I cut into my beautiful laminated fabric. I’ve done a rough fit and made my usual pattern changes, including petite-ing it and increasing the cup size but knowing Ottobre, I don’t expect too many challenges. Cutting the fashion fabric though will be fiddly, I’m sure, because I will have to cut the coat shell in a single layer, so that all of the large damask motifs align perfectly. <\/p>\n

And when alignment becomes a chore, I’ve also started on an exquisite smocked dress for my niece based on Gail Doane’s out-of-this-world dress, Eloise, which is on the cover of AS&E #87<\/a>. Grey wool, white french lace collar. Mmmm, delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a mammoth couple of months of ‘business’ sewing, including five Christmas\/winter articles, a Valentine’s Day cross-stitch and more, I’m finally taking a bit of a break from ‘gotta-dos’ to sew some ‘wanna-dos’. Last night, I cut out the lining for my Ottobre raincoat. Yes, yes, I know it’s taken me until now to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,7],"tags":[16,11,28,19,29,301,30],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patterns","category-sewing-tips","category-smocking","tag-children","tag-fabric","tag-gail-doane","tag-garment","tag-ottobre","tag-smocking","tag-womens-clothing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}