Try, Try Again

Here comes the first test of the Yui pattern. I traced off a copy of the Misato shoulder and marked the shoulder seam line.

Do I remember those waza names?

For this first pass, I just went straight on with the forward shoulder section to the jacket front. Putting the corners together and then the point of the other end on the jacket front line, the two sewing lines matched up almost exactly. Which is to be expected, since it really wasn't for shaping on the Misato.

Flip the shoulder piece over and hit the other side and this is what you get. When making up the muslin pieces, I just traced one half and then shifted the pattern over and traced the other half.

For the back, I moved up the dividing line. While I was looking at it, I thought the top half would end up with such long, thin points, that they would be difficult to handle. By moving the line up, I get shorter points, with less acute angles.

The pieces are cut so hopefully they'll go together tomorrow.

This latest bolt of muslin got really bunched up on the bolt and I'm pressing the hell out of it as I tear sections off, but it's putting up a good fight. Well, it's laying flat enough while I trace and cut out, but not very photogenic.

New Parts

Another bag of silk taffeta is what I ended up with from the last vouchers. This latest idea is supposed to have a dress and a jacket based on the Akari and Misato projects, so today in lieu of any great ideas, I started tracing out potential pattern pieces.

I'm thinking that the front of the jacket may not have any closure, just two edges meeting in the center front. I started tracing the two fronts, overlapped as the garment would be, but leaving out the "notch" in front.

The bottom edge is straight across and I put a center line in. This piece will get cut into two separate pieces eventually. A similar back piece was traced out, omitting the "step down" in back.

For the moment, I'll keep the shoulder and sleeve pieces from the Misato on top of the pile. I haven't decided on the neckline either, but I'm leaning towards nothing. The jacket may be heading boler-ish, just by coincidence.

For that shoulder piece, I'm debating cutting it in half at the shoulder seam and integrating the front section into the front jacket pieces and leaving the back section as-is. I could have sworn I took a picture of the rear body piece, but the combined front looks almost the same, so I'll use that for a quick idea. As part of this, I would split the rear body piece also as below and then sew a test up to see if it looks like it does in my head. In the meantime, I'll try to come up with fabrics and how I would use them if I go for that.

Fictional Garments

The latest round of vouchers expire at the end of the month, so I have to get back to work and plan what to get with them. I have a general idea what I want to do, but am still sketching and thinking. First pass, it looks like it will have some cross-over with both the Akari dress and the (Not) Chanel Misato jacket. How much that holds up though, I wouldn't want to bet on.

A new line, sort of

A new center front

Something in this direction, but not exactly

Unfortunately a mostly whole bolt of 44" muslin was lost last night when I went to tighten a light bulb and it exploded, throwing glass everywhere. The muslin was standing upright next to the lamp and as I was cleaning a million pieces of glass, I decided to skip not finding all them in the folds of the fabric until... Oh no, only 10 bolts left! Well, Joann's has a 60% off one fabric coupon at the end of the month if I can hold out that long.