Mick joined Clitheroe Ukulele Orchestra last year and they play in waistcoats. His first was acquired in haste from a charity shop. It was time for an upgrade.
Carol had given me some grey flannel a few weeks previously and I had the blue from years ago.
The pattern was from the second Great British Sewing Bee book. You have to trace them. This was the largest size.
You use interfacing in the front panels. In the book they use tack in interfacing, but I used Iron-on.
You attach the fronts to the back at the shoulders, then seam around the whole thing except under the arms on both sides. Then you turn your brain inside out to figure out the bagging of the garment. It’s very clever, but you pretty much sew the lining and the outer together, but leave a space to turn the whole thing through.
You end up with holes at each side in the lining which I sewed up by hand.
The pattern says that you can make a faux piping by ironing the front very carefully to show the lining and by heck it worked a treat.
Then for the bound button holes, more internet knowledge required. The explanation in the book is quite good, but the videos really helped.
You lay a small piece of fabric where you want the button hole, on the outside, right face together.
Sew a narrow rectangle around the button hole, then slit the hole through all the layers….. of the lovely work you have been working on for days, very jangled.
Then push the external material through the hole and press it so that lips appear on the outside.
On the inside, trim and turn under the excess and sew very neatly,
And carefully.
Internal
External
Close-Up
More
More, cos I was so chuffed.
Open view
Closed view. The lady bumps on my dress form distort the shape a bit.
Lovely perfectly matched buttons, from Patches and Buttons in Clitheroe.
I need to make a light weight summer version now.
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