December's AGAM

I'm mostly done with November's garment and it has been for a while but I have not been in the my little studio for a while so I'll just post it with December's garment.

For December I plan to continue my self drafted pattern route and this time its one of my projects from Design-It Yourself Clothes.

The Betsy Jacket

The Jacket

For a while now I have been wanting a Chanel style jacket, so I'm making this coming year the year for one or two or more. With the separate cup sizes the better, I'm hoping it will be a lot easier to fit and since I just fitted another simplicity with different cups pattern and still have my notes this should be about the same. I don't wear a lot of jackets but would like a wardrobe of them and wear them a lot more. I plan to use my Threads magazine collection and the few books I have to makes one of a kind. I hope for this my next complex project after the jeans contest. But I am pretty excited about having a jacket TnT pattern.

Until next time happy sewing...

January Jacket

I have picked my jacket for January and its looks to be pretty easy so maybe I can get this done or at least most of it done this month. I'm going to make the most of my time and  focus on quality not quantity, it is an OOP Butterick 5256. The jacket is not lined but I am going to try and line it and the body and sleeves are one. I don't know if this will pose a challenge but I'll try.

Again I don't plan to make 12 jackets in a year, I just don't have that time so I'm aiming for at least 3 but hoping for 4 this year . I'm also need to plan some clothes too to go along with my new jacket. Hopefully I'll have something soon.
Happy Sewing

Jacket Sew Along

Over at Stitcher's Guild there has been much talk and enthusiasm over the newest sew-along, a jacket a month. It was inspired by Gigi's one jacket a month she had this year and she was actually about to accomplish it and even past her goal making a total of 13 jackets. I actually followed along from the beginning and even thought about making my own little challenge but never put anything into play since I had no idea what. Well now there is a sew- along for 2011. Now I already had plans to try and make a couple for myself but after reading the thread I think I would like to join. I don't even plan to make the 12 total but I'm aiming for 4 at least, even though I'm living in the middle of the desert in the winter months is does cool down enough at night to wear a jacket and sometimes during the summer months depending on where you are the A.C can require you to need one.





The pics you see are just some ideas of patterns to use, I have a lot more including my BWOF/Burdastyle mags. The brown and gold houndstooth was a fabric I got from fabric dot com a few years ago with the intention to make a jacket like the one by Micheal Kors you see on the right but never got around to it. Now I have some motivation to finally make it up but I plan to use a different pattern than the original one I chose. I don't plan to officially say anything in the forum until I have finished my first jacket but I have joined the flickr group set-up for the sew along, so we shall see how it goes.

As far as current sewing, I have designed a simple top and now I'm working on the pattern but I'll talk more about that in my next post. Until next time Happy Sewing