a buffalo plaid jacket and a little blue skirt

I’ve made a few more things to wear this winter/early spring….

Firstly, a delightfully warm jacket. I bought this buffalo plaid fabric from the remnants table in KnitWit quite a few years ago and hadn’t really known what to do with it ever since. Anyway I finally decided it was next up, time to make something with it, something… ANYTHING. Often with fabric I don’t feel very passionate about, I end up putting a big effort and time and care into making it as nicely and as well as I can, and this is what happened this time too. I carefully aligned all the plaids, was a teeny bit disappointed that I couldn’t make them match down the front opening edge, but apart from that everything lines up A-ok, yay.

I used the Closet Core Sienna jacket pattern again, cutting the jacket style of my imagination which kind of blended all three views. I gave it inseam side pockets, fully lined it (kind of silky stuff from a Morrison clothing remnant sale) and added two inner patch breast pockets to the lining.

I just cut the fully lined hood, using the joining edge of the collar for the bottom edge, otherwise not using any specific hood pattern. At some point, I decided the obvious choice for closure to be toggles… black ones. Of course Spotlight only had sorta murky-greenish ones. So I bought the requisite, gave them a sand, strung them up like so:

and painted them with three coat of matt black acrylic craft paint, finishing off with a clear matt varnish to protect it.

I happened to have a short length of black braid that I could use for the “anchors”, and bought some black leather lacing to attach the toggles and for the closure.

I’m really happy with how these turned out!

I also made a simple little skirt, the kind of thing I like to wear all winter long. This is from a length of stretchy blue denim, a longterm leftover from a pair of trousers I made once. Because I only had a smallish scrap with oddly shaped pieces I hauled out ye olde favourite V 1247, and added about 10cm.

The waistband is navy blue skinny-wale cord (from stash), lined with a blue cotton (also stash) which I also added on to the front yoke to get enough length for the pockets, as pictured. The stash also provided a dress zip.