I'm really getting down to the wire here.
An impromptu business trip suddenly lead to a lot of chaos all at once, so I spent all of my free time working on my costume instead of writing about it. But that was a good thing, because my first version of the coat is complete!
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| Now with even more poorly exposed cell phone camera |
This was a great learning experience for me, because my sewing and pattern making skills are still pretty low level. Thankfully, I bought enough fabric to make about three coats, because I was sure I was going to fail and have to do it again. Hooray for planning ahead.
I started out by laying out the fabric and cutting out my initial pieces.
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| This is typically what our dining room table is used for |
I was following the pattern pretty well, and got a lot of pieces I was happy with. Following the advice of the internet, I bought a teflon foot so that my fabric wouldn't get caught and was carefully sewing together the back of the coat. This was also my first time serging - which is super cool and now I will be doing it all the time.
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| The back! |
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| Stripes! |
Things were going well. TOO WELL. Naturally, I had sewn the stripes on the wrong way. So that meant I got to do it again and get a lot of practice on sewing stripes.
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| The back and sides all sewn together. |
It slowly started coming together. I was working off of a pattern that roughly matched someone my height and weight, but people are rarely cookie cutter, and I had to rip out some seams to make adjustments. It really came together when the sleeves got added!
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| Eeee it's looking like a thing! |
From here it was a blur of the zipper, hiding the zipper, adding the collar, pressing the seams, and redoing things in between. I added the zipper and then realized that I had cut the fabric the wrong way, and the stretch direction was not the way it should have been. So I ripped the zipper out, made sure the fabric wasn't stretched, and did it again. Then I had to tailor the top part a bit because the chest area was baggy, so that involved taking the zipper out again. I'm really good at zippers now.
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| I start doing weird hand gestures when it gets late. |
I hemmed the bottom of the coat, then sewed the little piece that buttons on over the collar. I also tried to press the fabric into place to keep some of the shapes. That part didn't work super well, but it made a bit of a difference.
Anyway, the final result was awesome. Here it is with the pants, cuff, and scarf.
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| First glimpse of the aluminum cuff! |
The whole thing is really coming together nicely, but Halloween is coming fast! Here's hoping I can finish in time. Four days to go!
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