Things I wanted to write about this Monday:
How my curated closet is coming along
Which garments are missing in my curated closet
Why I sewed an Asuka Hamada dress only to instantly rip it apart
What I learned in my sewing course which started last Wednesday (again… after a Corona induced break)
What I am really writing about this Monday:
How much I love the 
And I am in love with the book. If you did not read a post from
It’s Wendy Ward’s first book, which is aimed at the beginning sewist. And the preface of the book made it perfectly clear why I should work through this book:
“I am a believer of doing things right and I won’t show you lots of cheats and shortcuts. To achieve good results there are not man shortcuts in sewing (…) Sewing is a craft and the process is as important as the end result.”
I fear with the second topic I must fight a bit longer as I do nearly everything for the result and seldom for the appreciation of the process, be it sewing, knitting, painting or baking. Only in sports related things its perhaps 50/50 process and outcome for me.
But back to the book. Thankfully Wendy Ward starts with a nice mixture of projects for woven and stretch fabric. The projects successive become more complicated, starting with an easy stretchy shirt, covering a gathered skirt and wide pants and then leading to a jacket with an asymmetrical zipper.
And how do I love this jacket. I know, I know…. I hear you complaining I should start at the beginning as there are so many techniques I never learned precisely (I am a bad case of fumbling my way through sewing). But I cannot resist. The jacket looks so beautiful and best of all, Wendy Ward offers modifications for the patterns and for the jacket there is a version with a Peter Pan collar. Sadly, the jacket with the collar is made of black fabric, so the collar is not visible very well. I nevertheless give you photo.
Now you understand: I badly need this jacket.
But even my hubris has limits and I will restrain myself and first try out a collar, without wasting expensive wool fabric for a whole jacket only to kill the collar.
I only once made a real collar, and this was for my coat project. This worked ok, but I completely forgot what I did :-DDD And as I love round collars on shirts and sweaters, I will start with a simple sweater (or shirt project – I am still indecisive) and add Wendy’s a Peter Pan collar.
I already cutout a shirt front and back in light blue jersey as I wanted to replicate a puff sleeve shirt, I bought some time ago from C & A. But now as the collar got priority, I am unsure if I should sew the sleeves as planned (mid forearm length and puffy with an elasticated cuff) or if simpler sleeves would be a better companion for the Peter Pan collar.
The white shirt was soiled with makeup, so could buy it for I think 4€ and I used it as a pattern template.
What do you think? Puff sleeves or straight sleeves?
If this works well, the jacket is next… I hope to find some lovely black fabric, so that I can incorporate it easily into my curated closet. And here I have the next decision to make, shall I make a “real” outerwear jacket from a heavy wool fabric or should I make kind of sweater jacket, which I can wear as a layer over a blouse or dress…?
So, I hope to hear from you.
And again: Thank you
Thank you 
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