My Weekend Sewing Frenzy

The water that we had in our basement threw me for a loop. I had planned to get a project finished that I needed for a talk that I gave yesterday. Well, best laid plans....didn't happen. Instead, as I told you, I spent the rest of the day cleaning and trying to get things back into some order. So, I missed my Sleeves on Saturday post, no soup was made on Sunday, but I did finish everything that I needed to finish! Today I'm sharing one of those pieces. I began with this Indigo Junction pattern,

and I made this coat. Look in the left hand corner of the photo and you can see the dress I wore on Saturday night!! I need to put that away :-)

The fabric is a beautiful piece of summer weight wool from Pendelton. I absolutely love this fabric.

It drapes beautifully, sews beautifully, basically did exactly everything that I wanted it to do.

The sleeves were redrafted. I did the sleeve that I did on the jacket below.

This sleeve was done as a Sleeves On Saturday post and you can find the instructions here, http://rhondabuss.blogspot.com/2012/03/sleeves-on-saturday.html. 

The pattern called for large snaps to be sewn in rather than buttonholes. I sat contemplating snaps versus buttonholes. I had the snaps, but I thought, "oh my, how tacky." Back and forth I went and then I finally realized that I would never be happy with snaps sewn in, so I got out my silk organza and made the bound buttonholes. In the time I spent contemplating the buttonholes versus the snaps, I could have had the buttonholes made!! In the end, I made the right decision.
This is the back side of my buttonholes. I must admit that I was rather proud of how the back turned out. If you would like to see how I did these buttonholes, here is a tutorial I did a while back, http://rhondabuss.blogspot.com/2012/10/bound-button-holes.html

The pattern calls for this jacket to be unlined, but as you can see, I lined mine. I just love the way it looks.
I'm not a fan of dropped shouldered sleeves, but the jacket looked lovely on. I wore it with a short straight skirt. There is enough of the plaid leftover to make a matching pencil skirt which I will make as I think it will make such a smart looking outfit. Sadly, I did not take a picture of me in the jacket. Once the skirt is made though, I will get a picture.
I have three other pieces that I made over the weekend. I'll share those with you on Thursday.