I must begin with an apology. I did not intend to go missing from the blog world for such a long time. (Life just got a little too complicated.) That in and of itself is no great sin, but it turned out that I managed to go off the radar just at the time that
Peggy nominated me for an award. I did not respond in any way and that was unbelievably rude on my part. My excuse is ignorance, since I have not been "checking in". I thank you very much for the honour, Peggy, and I beg forgiveness. Since I cannot even seem to keep up normal repartee, I certainly do not deserve any award. Please allow me to just go on from here.
Missing from blogging does not mean missing from the sewing room, because even a little work accomplished while I have my morning coffee will result in something done over a period of time. So...
The plan was to finish up winter sewing while I cold still get a few wears out of these wooly items. I managed a jumper, started a coat... The weather became unseasonably warm and I couldn't bear handling the heavy wool coating, so that was rolled up and put away till the fall. Now the weather is back to "normal", so I did get to wear the jumper. From here on in, though, it'll be onto warmer weather sewing.
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| Simplicity 2539 |
Ah, yes, the jumper... At one point I weas trolling around the Simplicity site and was rather taken with the jumper on this pattern. Nothing else appealed to me - just the jumper. I thought about buying the pattern, but then I was browsing in my pattern drawer and came across this Vogue pattern. With a little reconstructing... So - jumper View C (that's the white one), eliminate the buttoned front by putting the centre front on a fold. Neckline from View A (that's the brown one). Add a centre back seam for a zipper, and you get...
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| The blouse is from a while back. |
The fabric is a pinstripe wool suiting - I know, I know - brown again. It's fully lined, though I also made facings. I seem to have a fear of lining showing at the edges if there is no facing.
To "dress it up" a little, I did three rows of topstitching in a heavier brown thread at the neckline and armholes.
Right - you'd be wanting to see me in the jumper. Very boring on the hanger. A little better in real life.
I rather like jumpers - sort of like having a skirt and vest all in one, but much less bother to wear.
Looks like I have rather a lot of catching up to do on what everyone else has been sewing!
