...my friend
Smoking Needles is currently making what I am sure will be a beautiful Chanelish quilted jacket. Talking to her tonight brought back memories of the time I made my own Chanelish jacket. It was back in 2009, when some how I got up the nerve to join the
"Go Chanel or Go Home" jacket challenge. Plans to make this type of jacket had actually begun a year before when my mother gifted me a beautiful boucle fabric that she said had been in her attic for quite some time. It was perfect for a quilted jacket - it had pink in the print - PERFECT! But then I chickened out until the jacket challenge came about one year later.
This jacket created a whole lot of first's for me:
- first two piece sleeve
- first time working with boucle fabric
- first time quilting a lining
- first time working with trim
- first time making my own bias tape
It was seven years ago that this project stretched my sewing skills further than I had ever dreamed!
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| I still can't believe I matched the stripes so well! |
I went back to review the process and found that it took me 22 days to complete. At which time I was working full time and taking classes at night towards my degree. Where did all that energy go???
