Belated Costume Patterns and A Tiny FanFic

 I missed these patterns at Joanns in October, or maybe they are just gift sewing choices

Kind of two classic Joker looks for the comic books

The Care Bears?  Is this a New Generation thing? Why do they have Shrek ears? (there is no licensed Shrek pattern btw)

They had a pattern line

There was a whole series of them. This is not my copy. I have one of these  patterns, but I am too damn lazy to go dig up the photo or dig the pattern out and take another photo. Someone had an entire set at Value Village and it blew my mind. I could only take one.

there is a three piece face mask pattern included. It's tempting if it goes on the big sale

Of course, the Child, DBA Grogu.

this is creepy. It really is.

I can see buying this.

But what did come home with me was a yard of this 'retro' Darth print.

Okay, I see this as Pride Vader. He spent his youth trying to free his mother, and his teenaged years with another older woman, probably had more of a crush (I mean, the gal had a wardrobe I'd die for) than love for. Anakin never did like sand, it was too rough and coarse. What else do we know about him? Very little. All we know is that he likes making stuff out of broken stuff; the best mechanic in the galaxy?

Society's expectations broke him and made him into a weapon.

Poor kid.

Shirtmaking Workbook, or Coffin's underdelivered content

 I am not covering any new ground with this book report. I am kind of annoyed that I bought this book, because I had heard about this before. And you can read the entire book online on ISSUU if you poke around a little.

Before I forget, I found this page (copy and paste in yr own browser)

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while searching for the missing online content for David Page Coffin's The Shirtmaking Workbook.

There are clickable links in this PDF with addresses on Quarto's website.

Hell yes I do!

and here's where it goes

Nothing.

There has always been some online grousing about overpromising and underdelivering on Coffin's part for this book, which offered more than 100 pattern downloads for Collars Cuffs and Plackets. It's part of the title, for goshsakes.

an early review, Lindsey - I thank you, wherever you are

The book is still for sale by Quarto, with this cover:

And it has  that advertisement on the front

and has absolutely no linked material, as of today, November 11, 2021.

I have a couple of emails to Quarto. We'll see if they have any form response. I will follow up if they do.

Summing up summer sewing and summarizing autumn's: more of the same stuff from last year

Summer sewing is starting to skip a season. 

 I have rebuilt this dress collar twice, and am going to try a third

This dress was started last summer in August 2020, worn once, redone, worn once again, and hated the way the stand collar felt. So I ripped it out and am going to scrap together a collar similar to the Italian spread collar that Peter Lappin has been working on. For next summer.

Peter Lappin, from Instagram

This Felix dress is stalled, as the print I made for it on Spoonflower just doesn't work with the big print (cute idea, wrong color) . So I have a different solid fabric for it, but .... it's going to need picking apart and...well, it hasn't been warm lately. It's not raining, it's just cloudy and cool. So after all the redrafting and tracing I did to make this pattern work better.... it's going to be a next 2022 summer dress. Like the Tokyobots dress was 2020, finished in 2021.

Hair touching selfie style. The whole building is in shades of depressing beige and gray.
Dune: office planet 

Shown above: made and worn pants. Same one piece baggy pants, now in brussels washer cotton/rayon, which is a fabric that will not wear well in the long run as pants, but will be comfy and beige in the short run.

Shirt! Made shirt! Made some REALLY AWFUL BUTTONHOLES and that was awful. The test ones on the faux placket with the Bernette buttonhole device were beautiful, and when we got to the actual placket, totally stalled out. Nothing to make you really feel your sewing oats than failing at buttonholes.  I'm going to use spring snaps on every damn shirt from here on out (and you'll notice the pullover shirt does not need buttons or fasteners FOR THIS VERY REASON.

Bought new to me corduroy jacket, considered replacing ring snaps (which jingle) with spring snaps (that don't) and just sold the jacket. Ring Snaps are off my list now. Having supply issues with Gold Star and KAMsnaps regarding size and material, but isn't everyone everywhere having trouble finding things? I am pretty sure I will survive.

More darts in RTW jeans. Seems to be my specialty.

Fun with zippers? Replaced zipper; hated it, replaced that zipper with different zipper. Did it for each jacket.

 

BT's jacket

Doug's jacket

The key thing I learned this summer is that I need to handbaste a zipper with thread. Not pins, or clips, but thread. And be very cautious about sewing it in with the machine.

I think they are lovely. Certainly sworn and sweated over.

Mending crotch of pants that has needed mending for longer than I should admit (so I won't)

Pre ironed facing foldover, so fewer fiddling

It's the basting buddy.

Made work jacket. This replaces work jacket I used to own, smoked in, and gave up on it's ever not smelling like an ashtray. It is boring and poly crepe, just like previous edition, big enough to wear over regular clothes on work nights. And it has SNAPS because buttonhole fail. Eventually it will be made out of wool crepe, and have welt button holes.

Miyake shirt still in time out pile.

And the dresses are arriving. Actually I am almost done.

So that's been the sewing. Oh, traced off a pattern from a pair of Em's pants, mended pair with part of the other. That's another post, when I make the new pair from the pattern I made.