No progress :-(

OK, not totally no progress--my hair canvas and weft interfacing arrived yesterday from B. Black and Sons, but I haven't touched my muslin in a week, thanks to the insanity that is full-time work, marching band season, and freelance work heating up. Plus, I'm really unhappy with my muslin (the cheap muslin from Walmart is really much too thin to do an accurate test for a wool coat), so I've been looking around the house, the church rummage sale, and the clearance rack at JoAnn's for a more suitable test fabric. Preferably one that's free or extremely cheap. No luck so far.

I have, however, been keeping up with Gertie's tutorials and am looking forward to making the coat, even if I don't finish until December. Heck, I have yet to finish a quilt I started in 1985--finishing a coat in 4 months is lightening-fast in comparison!

Slow progress

I finally pretreated my wool today, using the dryer-and-hot-towels method. It looks good and the pretreating didn't drastically change the fabric's hand, so I'm happy. My hair canvas and weft interfacing are on their way East from B. Black and Sons in L.A., and I might actually cut my fabric out in the next week if I can finish with my muslin. My sewing machine didn't care for the lightweight fabric combined with the 5-mm basting stitch, and tried to gather the fabric. So my muslin looks kind of atrocious. And the top collar is way too big, so I need to trim that down. And redo the fronts for the gaposis problem. The sleeves are already fixed.

Here's my lining fabric and buttons (I chose the ones on the left). The shell fabric is a deep red melton from Fabric.com.