Saturday, October 9, 2010

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.

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