Well, I've finally finished the gilet which was supposed to be a jacket.
I was using some corduroy off cuts that I had in my personal resource centre and some lining fabric that I have had for years so a stash buster project really. It was only the wadding that was fairly new plus the zips I had to buy.
All went as well as could be expected when I still had brain fog from covid. For instance I discovered that the hood didn't fit the armscye and that the centre front zip needed to be sewn in before the fronts and lining are sewn together, trimmed, turned through and pressed.......
I added the zip at the social on Wednesday morning. It's now a design feature of having an exposed tape on the inside.
I carried on sewing on Wednesday after the social, made the two part sleeves and added them and hated the result. They just didn't look good at all. I walked away and left it.
I had a think and decided to cut off the sleeves - bye bye beautiful stitching and overlocking - and used the sleeve fabric to make some bias strips. I then added the strips to the armholes and finished the gilet.
I feel happier with it as a gilet but if I'd known it was going to be a gilet I wouldn't have added the hood. Other than that I love the colour.
