by Scott | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
So, when last I posted, I was about to baste all of the pieces of the jacket’s main body together and see how it fits. So, yeah, I did that. Here’s a picture of me wearing it. There is extra material beyond the pattern lines along the armholes and the...
by Scott | Jun 24, 2018 | Blog
The first step in partially assembling the jacket for the initial fitting is to affix the canvases to the front pieces. This is done by lining the canvases up where they will go on the finished jacket and “basting” the two pieces together with gigantic, simple...
by Scott | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog
I know what you’re thinking. Now that you’ve spent sixteen hours of your limited lifespan pad stitching a part of the jacket that will never be seen by anybody, surely, you’re done with the canvases and can move on to some other part of the garment. To which I say,...
by Scott | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog
You know where this is going. Four hours of effort got me from this point: To this point: I’m still amazed at how time-consuming this was. If it had just been a matter of making stitches as fast as I could with an endless amount of thread...
by Scott | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog
Welcome to week three of pad stitching. As you remember, last time I completed the pad stitching of one canvas. This time I begin the pad stitching of its mirror image. Again, I was able to put in a couple of hours one day. Again, that got me to about here. Then,...
by Scott | May 28, 2018 | Blog
Here’s where the pad stitching stood at the end of the previous post. So, I did another two hours and made this much progress. The next day I did two more hours, and finished pad stitching the canvas. That’s eight hours of work. One full work-day of time,...
