You can see the white zipper is too white, so grey it will be.
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I love this jacket, a lot.
I finished it and wore it downtown to meet up with a friend of mine. I got a couple compliments and one lady wanted to know where I got it ... Ha Ha! Said it looked like snow balls all over me. Here is the winter white wool I bought for the collar . I was going to make loops and buttons for the closure, but the more I though about it, there are already so many little white bumps that looks like buttons, I didn't thing that would look very good. I decided a big exposed zipper would be the best choice. I wanted the zipper to run up into the collar so I ordered two zippers 30 inches long. I wasn't sure which color would be best. It was cheaper to order 2 zippers from Wawak than it would have been to go to the store AND they have a much better selection. I ordered them Tuesday afternoon and they were on my door step at 11 am the next day. WOW You can see the white zipper is too white, so grey it will be. Now I can cut the collar out of the real fabric. After one side of it is sewn to the neckline, I can put in the zipper.
Now all that's left is to close everything up with mostly a bunch of hand stitching. I pinned and slipstitched in inside of the collar. And don't you hate it when you are trying to sew fast and the thread gets into a horrible knot! Then, I Hong Kong finished the inside edge of the collar, graded the seam and then carefully stitched in the ditch from the outside. This reduced the bulk of this very thick fabric because some of the seams allowance was going up into the collar and some was going down below the seam line.
I love this jacket, a lot.
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Julie
12/6/2013 02:46:40 am
Thank you for sharing your great pictures of how to construct your items, it is greatly appreciated. Love your jacket.
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thegoosemother
12/6/2013 03:20:12 am
Wow Andrea! Beautiful. That's a style some have to be careful with, otherwise it could end up looking like the garment is wearing you; YOU wear the jacket! Doncha love it when you make something and people ask you where you got it?! Makes the compliment doubly nice. The Goose
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Gwyn Lynch
12/7/2013 02:00:25 am
Wow, love how this turned out! You look great in it!!
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