The World's a Stage

I have finally started sewing again. I got home yesterday around 6:30PM and sewed until about 3AM, with an hour or two off for food and showering. It’s brilliant.

Every time I sew for long periods of time, I want to quit my day job and just keep sewing. I’ve said it before, but it’s probably still true: I think I’m in the wrong industry.

So the project I’m working on has been simmering in the back of my mind for quite a while. I have a bunch of t-shirts that I no longer wear but for various sentimental reasons, don’t want want to throw away. So I’m taking some of those shirts (I think it will take 5 or 6 shirts) and making them into a jacket. I spend a while yesterday dithering over the design, but this is what I finally settled on:

Hopefully my sewing abilities surpass my drawing abilities – the sort of squiggly mess in the back of the coat is going to be like half of a double circle skirt – I want it to swish a lot, but I decided that the fabric didn’t quite work for a carefully tailored tailcoat like I had first imagined it.

Here are some pictures of the work in progress.

The back of the shell:

Say no to scurvy!

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