Jaime progress

[mala_14]

I patterned up most of the coat yesterday and then hung out with the boyfriend today so he could cut it out. He's never cut out anything before so it was a bit of an ordeal, but it's mostly done now and saved me some work (although not time, I probably could have cut it out in half the time with the rotary cutter ;p). I left off the collar for now because I'm not entirely sure on the shape just yet, whether it's curved or straight. I'm inclined toward a straight collar, because it'd be easier, but also because the lining has lines that seem to go straight all the way around the collar. Thoughts?


I realized, again, yesterday that patterning something in the flat is one of my favourite stages of sewing. I love puzzling things out and trying to flatten the 3D shapes in my head and figure out how things go together. This one was pretty interesting. Here's what I came up with:

• There are 2 back pieces with a seam running through the CB and a CB vent up to the waist


• The collar is cut in 1 piece because there is no CB seam


• The fronts are actually different. The left front is wider than the right (which stops at CF) for the asymmetrical closure


• The side insets look to me to be two 1/4 circles (but may be 1/2 circles) with 8 tucks and a rounded corner at the wedge of the quarter circle


• The sleeve is a 2-piece sleeve (just realizing this now, I totally patterned a 1-piece sleeve, oh well)

This gif was really helpful for the back:

Aaaand it seems like I once again just filled your f-list with Jaime Lannister pics. Oops! How does that happen? ;)

I'm hoping to get this sewn up in the next couple of days, so expect some pics soon!

Comments

[hharris.livejournal.com]

(I'm assuming the lines are applied trim...but I can't really tell from this picture, so could just as likely be wrong!)

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I'm going to do mock-ups of both a straight collar and a curved one and see what looks right.