Home again and back in the shop and reworked workshop. It's spring and inspired by that and some lovely clothes I saw in the south of France I have started to produce my Spring collection. Strictly speaking I made the pink and black top in week 49 - but who is going to quibble?
Spring has also inspired me to resurrect some disasters I started last year and gave up on. Because I hate waste and I hate to be beaten. The major rescue work will be on a light weight pixie coat I began in the summer. It is old tee shirt fabric and bits of stretch jersey. Nice colours but a pig to construct. I thought my fab new overlocker would be able to cope where the shop machine had choked and spat it out. I was wrong. It is still in pieces and causing me and my precious machines grief. I will not, however, give up on it this time. Week 50 will see the coat finished. I may have been over optimistic as I have just broken a needle on my overlocker. Usually pixie coats are time consuming and a bit fiddly but once you have assembled the correct colour combinations and collected sufficient felted jumpers they are not that difficult - not so with man made fabrics - this coat has been an absolute brute to make and it is still not finished. I have lost count of the hours I have put into it.
Ok so it is finally finished. In the best tradition of haut couture I resorted to hand sewing the last bits. It looks ok - but was more a sow's ear than a silk purse to make. Still it will be on sale in the shop from Thursday.
Spring has also inspired me to resurrect some disasters I started last year and gave up on. Because I hate waste and I hate to be beaten. The major rescue work will be on a light weight pixie coat I began in the summer. It is old tee shirt fabric and bits of stretch jersey. Nice colours but a pig to construct. I thought my fab new overlocker would be able to cope where the shop machine had choked and spat it out. I was wrong. It is still in pieces and causing me and my precious machines grief. I will not, however, give up on it this time. Week 50 will see the coat finished. I may have been over optimistic as I have just broken a needle on my overlocker. Usually pixie coats are time consuming and a bit fiddly but once you have assembled the correct colour combinations and collected sufficient felted jumpers they are not that difficult - not so with man made fabrics - this coat has been an absolute brute to make and it is still not finished. I have lost count of the hours I have put into it.
Ok so it is finally finished. In the best tradition of haut couture I resorted to hand sewing the last bits. It looks ok - but was more a sow's ear than a silk purse to make. Still it will be on sale in the shop from Thursday.