finished gaucho pants

here they are all done and ready to have the press lines ironed in. I'm pleased with myself for speeding along and getting them finished. It was definitely a much quicker sew compared to my almost 3 week jacket.

I lined these pants in 'bemsilk', which is basically polyester. Not my first choice for lining but I didn't have anything else suitable in the fabric stash and I'm determined to use up fabric that I already have.

Next up is the satin top. After that, my family have put in their sewing requests, which I'll try to do while keeping my personal sewing going. Once you start sewing for yourself, it's very hard to stop!

finished jacket

it took 2 weeks to sew at a frustratingly slow pace but I can now happily say that it's finished. This was a sewing project with a few glitches along the way:

not enough fabric. I had 1.6 metres of 150cm fabric and thought that this would be enough. It would have been if I didn't want to have a collar. So I had to improvise. This was partly successful although I had to sew a centre seam in the under collar piece. (I'd bought the fabric at a sale and this was the end of the bolt.) Next time, I'll read the pattern more carefully!

my facings had to be cut out of the fabric I'd planned to make my gaucho pants. This has resulted in a slightly stiffer jacket than what I wanted.

I couldn't find the jacket interfacing that I wanted at Spotlight so I made do with an inferior iron-on interfacing that I had on hand. I'm making a special trip into Centrepoint this weekend to stock up so that I don't get caught short again.

I abandoned the idea of the hong kong seams (after I'd spent a bit of time making the bias binding) and decided to line it instead using a remnant of floral silk voile dug out of my fabric stash ahem, I mean collection. The lining fabric had grain issues.

my iron died.

I'm not done with this pattern yet. It's back in the sewing queue again to be made up in black for my next mini wardrobe adventure.