Zia and Zulf – completed jackets

May 10th, 2013

Tada! I finished both jackets for Zia and Zulf!

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Zulf – jacket progress

May 1st, 2013

You might be wondering… what happened to the sleeves?

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I mentioned before that because I used a blazer pattern, there wasn’t much movement around the armpit area. I think I figured out how I want to fix it, but it involves remaking the sleeve, so I took them off. Unfortunately, I don’t have anymore yellow twill, so I’ll have to go to the fabric store this weekend.

Other than that set back… I’m getting pretty close on finishing Zulf’s jacket! Here are some close ups of what I did recently.

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Zia – redoing things

April 26th, 2013

It’s been a while since I last posted about Zia’s jacket, mainly because I’ve had some backwards progress on it. I actually had the collar and sleeves done, but then I decided to redo both of them.

So far, I’ve taken apart the sleeves and bracers and slightly redid the sleeves. The sleeves were a bit too long at first and the shoulders were too wide, but now I’ve adjusted both.

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