Its BACK!!!!!

At last.  I've cut something out to sew.  And I've a list of sewing projects that is quite long... all resulting from a trip to my local fabric shop and a new pattern.  Well, the pattern came first.  Mum ordered two Trudy Jansen patterns, a jacket and a dress. I'm making the jacket alongside her and having traced it out yesterday, and pinned the tissue together and fitted it to the dress form, I've gone ahead and cut out the test run garment today... and made NO alterations to the tissue at all.  Whether this turns out to be overconfidence on my part will remain to be seen.  The tissue seemed OK on the dress form.  Maybe the waist is a tad too high, but not by much, maybe half an inch or so.  I'd love to post a photo of the pattern and the cut out pieces but the camera battery died so that will have to wait.   Update: batteries are charged so here is a photo of the pile of pieces...which is as far as I've got with it. 

I have quite a busy week at work coming up so I may not get much chance to sew in the evenings but hopefully I will get the seam samples done this week.  The jacket is designed for boiled wool or fleece.  The test run (and mum's) is in brown knit with a mohair-y look to it.  The knit is quite heavy and printed with foxglove coloured roses.  I've not managed to match the pattern, because I cut out first and didn't want to take all the fabric and not leave mum enough to cut out her version.

I'm super excited about this jacket pattern and itching to sew it up, hoping to get it tacked together for fitting next weekend and hopefully its all going to work out well. 

But I mentioned the local fabric store didn't I?  Well, we went to get a yard of interfacing and two jeans buttons (for mum).  And I came home with two metres of fine wool jersey in  navy blue which will become two polo necks (and a vest if I can squeeze one out).  I also came home with a swatch of the most fabulous green boiled wool.  So this jacket muslin had better work out cos that green boiled wool has my name on it.  And there's some black boiled wool in the stash that also wants to become one of these jackets.   Add to that, a striped skirt, a boiled wool skirt (may not be my best idea ever but there is a remnant in  the cupboard), a red jacket, two pairs of jeans and two summer dresses... and that's the list stuck on a postit on the sewing room wall.  Disturbingly for a woman who is supposed to be sewing only from stash this year... that green boiled wool is sat right at the top of the list.  Funny the way that always happens.