hello! I’ve made a chic (I hope) new jacket… and in such a pretty colour, I’m completely in love. Guava pink? Strawberry icecream pink? Sherbie pink? Coral? Ham pink? haha. Whichever, I really adore it and feel like it’s one of “my” colours that suits me quite well.
The fabric is a thickish wool felt that I bought from the Fabric Store in Melbourne during our weekend trip over there in March ’22 to see Harry Potter. The name of the colour is actually “red clay”, and I have a merino t-shirt in the same colour way, blogged here. I even bought some matching thread in the same transaction, which I have carefully saved ever since just for these very projects. Quite unlike me!
I used the Closet Core Sienna jacket, a pattern that I have used once before, in a different variation. This new one is variation C, the shortest of the three. I like that it’s cropped, a little boxy, and the notched collar. I also like the abundance of pockets. This little jacket has five tucked away in its smallish self!
I made a BIG change, of course. I wasn’t going to, but after doing only a little bit of sewing I decided it had to be lined. Not lining would have felt a bit sacrilegious to this beautiful wool fabric. For this I used a pale pink lining fabric from my stash. Another change; I abstained from topstitching, which this design has in copious quantities, and instead carefully arranged it to have all hidden/invisible stitching as much as possible.
So, the breast and hip pockets are made as welt pockets, and I agonised quite a lot over getting those slanted welts just right, with the pockets inside hanging “down” and not skewed sideways. This was a lot harder to achieve than I first thought it would be.
Typical of me to make a project a lot more complicated that it should be, honestly, I don’t know why I do this to myself.
The sleeves are the variation with a pocket in them. I think this is such a cute idea!
I happened to have the perfect coloured velvet ribbon to make the hanging loop, so I love this detail!
Do you think I had the right buttons in my stash? No! I did not! and I’m still on a kick to not buy anything new, as much as I can. I still have a small blob of modelling clay left, so made my own. I’ve done this multiple times before and love how hand shaped and painted buttons look. I made ten – the pattern requires eight, so I picked the best eight for the outside of the jacket, and sewed the two spare ones on the inside, on a scrap of felt, just in case I need them in the future.
I can’t actually decide if I prefer it buttoned, or unbuttoned. I’ve been wearing it buttoned, but worry it looks a bit funny. But it’s obviously warmer that way!
I love how this turned out! To be honest, I finished this jacket just before we went away, but didn’t have the time to blog it. Since coming home though, I’ve worn it several times. My new favourite coat!
Here it is worn with my pumpkin silk Mysotis dress, blogged here. Love this mix of warm spicy colours! It’s been very very cold here this winter, and my new coat has proved itself delightfully snuggly; absolute bliss. I’m going to thoroughly enjoy this coat for the remainder of this winter, and the next… and the next…
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