forging ahead
May. 14th, 2014 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI worked out my priorities, and decided I'd rather have the jacket than combinations, camisole, or new reticule. The jacket's most visible! (All right, my handbag is black and will clash with my brown accents, but life goes on.) I can wear the slightly-too-large antique camisole I have, with my shift under that. I have sleeveless Edwardian/teens combinations, but I don't want to sweat directly onto an antique, hence the shift. All this era-surfing requires so much underwear!
I mocked up and fitted the jacket today, mostly with very little trouble. It's a Butterick pattern, and pretty basic. I had to nip the waist in quite a bit at the back and side seams, but that was easy...the sleeve was another story! Absolutely not impressed with the pulling at the sleeve head on the first mockup! I had to do quite a bit of fiddling, and it got to the point where to really make it smooth, I'd have had to move the dart, cut the front piece larger, make a different curve on the sleeve head, and probably fifty other little things. So - I gave up on "perfectly smooth", and decided "acceptable" was, well, acceptable!
The sleeves of my blouse are just loose enough that they get wadded up in the jacket sleeve something fierce, and just short enough that I can't hang on to them while putting my arms in the jacket. So that adds a bit of stuffed-sausage arm fun to the mix...that jacket is not coming off and on several times in the day, I can tell you! I'll be lining the jacket in silk, which hopefully will help with that (but probably not much).
I mocked up and fitted the jacket today, mostly with very little trouble. It's a Butterick pattern, and pretty basic. I had to nip the waist in quite a bit at the back and side seams, but that was easy...the sleeve was another story! Absolutely not impressed with the pulling at the sleeve head on the first mockup! I had to do quite a bit of fiddling, and it got to the point where to really make it smooth, I'd have had to move the dart, cut the front piece larger, make a different curve on the sleeve head, and probably fifty other little things. So - I gave up on "perfectly smooth", and decided "acceptable" was, well, acceptable!
The sleeves of my blouse are just loose enough that they get wadded up in the jacket sleeve something fierce, and just short enough that I can't hang on to them while putting my arms in the jacket. So that adds a bit of stuffed-sausage arm fun to the mix...that jacket is not coming off and on several times in the day, I can tell you! I'll be lining the jacket in silk, which hopefully will help with that (but probably not much).
