{"id":3202,"date":"2014-07-14T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2014-07-14T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:34:52","slug":"an-enigma-solved-embroidered-coat-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"An Enigma Solved – Embroidered Coat Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m so proud of this coat. \u00a0As my regular readers know, I’ve dubbed 2014 the “Year of the UFO” and this embroidered coat was the ufo-iest of all my ufo’s.<\/p>\n

\"Enigma<\/a><\/p>\n

No more. \u00a0My version of Enigma, the embroidered swing coat, \u00a0is all finished. \u00a0Every last bit from the bound button holes to the swing tacks that hold down the lining.<\/p>\n

\"Enigma<\/a><\/p>\n

I started this coat more than two and a half years ago and blogged about the embroidery<\/a> in some detail. \u00a0I was inspired by a very early issue of Inspirations (#12). \u00a0Loved the coat to pieces but couldn’t see myself knitting the coat just to embroider it, too. Besides, it only came in a 6m size.<\/p>\n

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Instead, I used a dark navy wool coating and a Ottobre pattern from the Winter 2008 issue. \u00a0It worked a treat. \u00a0I zipped through the embroidery, got everything cut out, even got a start on the assembly and then…nuthin’. \u00a0I got busy doing other projects, I misplaced the pattern piece for the sleeve, which meant I couldn’t cut out the lining pieces and Ellie grew.<\/p>\n

\"Enigma<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0And every time I looked at the clear zippered bag that incomplete coat carcass or moved it to get at something else, I felt guilty. \u00a0But my guilt has lifted, because this wonderful little coat isn’t a UFO any longer. \u00a0Hoorah!<\/p>\n

Let me walk you through some details. \u00a0 Obviously, the star of this coat is the embroidered hem. \u00a0Here it is, all spread out. You can see the ‘swing’ design of the coat when it’s laid out flat. \u00a0The bottom hem measures almost 1 1\/2yds wide, so it was a fair bit of embroidery.<\/p>\n

\"Enigma<\/a><\/p>\n

The embroidery is worked with DMC floss in a variety of simple stitches – buttonhole, french knot, stem stitch, straight stitch and detached chain. \u00a0As I discussed in my first, long-ago post about this coat, I used water soluble stabilizer<\/a>, basted to the wool, to transfer the design to the coat. \u00a0It worked really effectively, even if it was a bit unorthodox.<\/p>\n

Here’s a gallery of close ups of the entire hem, so you can see the details (and occasionally the cat hair) in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\t\t