The FOs are piling up like cord wood around here. Here's a jacket that's been underway, oh, about a year. What was the pattern? I can't remember any more. Simplicity or Butterick? It's hung in a closet needing only hems and buttons for so long that the pattern and everything else about it has long ago been filed away.
The incentive to finish was the extremely lame Spirit Week ongoing at the library. I refuse to wear a Hawaiian shirt or a funny hat to work, but by golly, I had a bark cloth cowboy-print jacket to wear for Cowboy Day.
I have a feeling that I may slightly resemble Scarlett O'Hara wearing the drapes, but that's just too bad.
They're carved wood half-barrel shapes. I found them several years back at a Long Grove, Illinois shop selling crafts from the Baltic Countries
OK, this brings us to the beginning of November and I've signed on to NaBloPoMo. I'm really going to try to post every day in the coming month. Of course most of it will be drivel, but that's what most people have come to expect from me, I'm sure.
Anyway, we'll see how long I last.
3 comments:
Wow Kathie - that jacket is amazing - I can't believe how well you matched up the fabric. That must have taken a gargantuan effort!
Good luck with the post every day - I can't even imagine having that much to say ... but come to think of it, I'm not often short of words ...
*hugs*
Tazzie
:-)
I actually thought about NaBloPoMo when you first mentioned it. Guess I still have 15 hours to decide. ;-)
Fun jacket! I love bark cloth.
I found you off the NaBloPoMo blogroll - and I have to tell you how impressed I am with the way you matched up the fabric, especially when you had to plan for the button placket. I know how hard that can be!
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