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Tailoring a Coat: Making a Back Stay

By on November 18, 2011 in Projects, Tips, Work in Progress

Another baby step of progress on the Seventies Wrap Coat project! Here is the first tailoring technique I’ve applied to my Wrap Coat. We’re adding a back stay to support and stabilize the back of our coat. This will prevent strain across the shoulders as well. And I’m guessing it will also keep loosely woven [...]

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Wrap Coat: At Least the Belt is Done!

By on October 27, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

Yay for sewing progress! Desperate to make progress on my wrap coat, I sewed up the belt for the coat. When life gets busy, it’s nice to make small steps on a big project! And I really want to wear this coat. It’s rainy, it’s cold and damp, I love the idea of snuggling into [...]

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Would You Interface a Coat Belt?

By on October 12, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

After cutting out all of the coating pieces, suddenly the whole project seemed a bit massive and daunting. Does that ever happen to you? All of a sudden it seems like a lot of work to put the whole thing together. When that happens, I have the urge to make one of the easy parts [...]

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Even the Most Beautiful Fabric May Have Flaws

By on October 11, 2011 in Fabrics, Projects, Tips, Work in Progress

I just noticed that my beautiful teal and brown coating has flaws! There are long gold strings, white lumps and even blue bumps on my coating fabric. I didn’t notice it at first, but it’s not the end of the world. We can work around them and still have a beautiful coat at the end [...]

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Preparing Coat Fabric: Prewashing, Preshrinking, Pre-Steaming?

Preparing Coat Fabric: Prewashing, Preshrinking, Pre-Steaming?

By on October 5, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

How do you prepare coat fabric? I’m talking about wool or wool-blend coating fabrics, like the coating I’m using for the Seventies Wrap Coat. Do you pre-wash them? If you’re planning to dry-clean the finished garment, do you pre-dryclean them? I usually pre-steam my fabrics. I steam the heck out of them and hope for [...]

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Wrap Coat: Fabulous Even in Muslin!

Wrap Coat: Fabulous Even in Muslin!

By on October 3, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

Yay! The Seventies Wrap Coat is done in muslin, and it’s just as fabulous as I hoped it would be. Don’t let the strange facial expressions in today’s photos confuse you, I love this coat! One of the easiest ways to tell if you’re going to like the finished garment is to see how you [...]

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Coat Progress, Barely

Coat Progress, Barely

By on September 27, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

Hey, everyone! Happy Monday! What, it’s not Monday? I’m kidding, I know what day it is. Did you miss me yesterday? Sorry I didn’t get a post up! It was a busy weekend here at Sewaholic Patterns headquarters and while I didn’t run out of time, I ran out of energy. Hard to believe, I [...]

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On Coats, Pattern Pieces, and A Sewalong of Sorts

On Coats, Pattern Pieces, and A Sewalong of Sorts

By on September 23, 2011 in Projects, Work in Progress

This is all I did on the coat project yesterday: I pinned the pattern pieces to the dress form to get an idea of what the coat might look like. (Love that huge, dramatic collar!) There’s a couple more urgent things I’m working on, but I did take a break and play with the pattern [...]

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