Marching band season has started, which kind of interfered with my ability to maintain this blog. But the pattern arrived, as did the lovely currant (deep red) melton wool from Fabric.com, and I bought a floral crepe de chine at JoAnn's for the lining. Pix to come, I promise. I couldn't find the tracing wheel I had back in junior high, so I had to buy a new one at JoAnn for all of $2.29, horrors. But it sure made muslin-making easier ... for past projects, I'd been tracing the pattern onto Swedish pattern paper and then making a muslin. This cut out a step, and I can use the muslin as my final pattern.
The whole thing is basted together except for the sleeves. The sleeve cap has about 2 inches too much ease in it, and although the collar covers the top of the sleeve, I'm working with a heavy enough weight wool that I don't want bulky gathers. I'm hoping to get the sleeves adjusted and basted in tonight. Gertie has posted a schedule that will have us finishing our coats in about a month ... hope I can keep up. We're supposed to cut out our fabric this week, but I haven't even pretreated my wool. I'm thinking about trying this method rather than paying the drycleaner--but I'm going to try it on another length of wool first, lol!
