Handmade Monday #435
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Hi everyone and welcome to another Handmade Monday, our weekly creative link up.
This week I finally finished a rather long term sewing project, I spent 6 weeks making this simple unlined jacket, honestly I don’t know why it took me so long. No “Sewing Bee” style speedy makes for me!! I was given this tan/mustard coloured baby cord ages ago and as it’s not really my colour I offered to make our daughter something and we settled on this jacket. I made myself one in a blue fabric a few years ago and it’s been really useful.
It’s the Westend Jacket from Peppermint Magazine but cropped and without the front patch pockets. The collar on this one is sitting a little differently to the one I made myself before but I did adjust the sizing for this slightly, making it smaller, and rather than printing the whole PDF again I used tracing paper and a wheel so maybe I went a bit wrong somewhere.
It’s a fairly easy pattern, the jacket is unlined but has nice flat felled seams throughout which are pretty simple to do but give a lovely finish. I used a contrast print for the neck bias binding which I really love too.
Anyway, now let’s take a look at the features from last week’s Handmade Monday.
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Arlene from Flour on my Face has a lovely edible gift idea for a friend who loves to cook - rosemary salt.
Sandra from Haekelfieber Austria has created a pattern for this super cute little crocheted cats. Sandra writes her patterns in German (which unfortunately I don’t speak) but sets her patterns out really clearly so with a little help from google translate I think the pattern will be fairly easy to follow.
Lisa from Fresh Vintage by Lisa S has made paper beads and added little metal eyelets at the ends, don’t they look great?
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Julie
