Thursday, December 30, 2010

2010 New Year's Resolution

A trend among bloggers is doing a year-end review and rundown of their work for 2010. I'm not doing this, but it made me think about my 2010 New Year's resolution - my only resolution was to make a tailored jacket. Originally I had a completely different project in mind (a practice jacket where I didn't have to worry about it fitting someone!), but as the year wore on, I chose to make this tailcoat instead.

I still have a lot to learn about tailoring, and a lot of techniques to refine and practice, but now I have taped a roll line and tried padstitching - albeit by machine, but it worked out pretty well. I'm proud of how the jacket is looking, and proud that I'm meeting my deadline!

Shears! I mean, Cheers!!
Thanks for joining me on this journey - here's to having more fun in 2011!

2 comments:

  1. Hi Beth,

    A Banyan is a men's dressing robe, basically. Here are a few links...

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/J_S_Copley_-_Nicolas_Boylston.jpg

    http://www.costumes.org/history/leloir/vol10/29_1688-95banyans.jpg

    http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/FrenchPainting/Images/LRG/126545.jpg

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  2. Thanks for the links! I can't remember the last time Google *and* Wikipedia failed me!

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