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My Project Runway jacket

3/1/2014

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charmed Liebling Annas new jacket
As some of you might know I have a little addiction to Project Runway. I love this show and think it's a nice way to get inspired by all the different styles and aesthetics the designers bring to the runway (and well, don't we all love the little drama of castinghows??).
Anyway, anybody remember Sonjia from season 10? She was eliminated in episode 12, right before the finale. She created a lot of interesting looks during the show but the one that I loved most was a jacket she made in episode 8 ("Starving Artists"):
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When I saw that jacket I knew that I would try and make one for myself that was similar to hers. Fast forward 1.5 years and here we are :) I am really into sewing clothes lately and this jacket is my newest project. I used a thin, soft wool fabric that I had gotten from my mom several years ago. To make a nice contrast I picked an orange/white/gray colored lining.
charmed Liebling fabrics for jacket
For the top part of the jacket I used a pattern from Burda style magazine (December 2009).
I simply cut the pattern right at the waistline since this is were the peplum starts. I sewed up the top part and while I like the asymmetric look of the original jacket I decided to keep the front panels straight - mostly because I couldn't wrap my head around how to design this part of the jacket to be quite honest.
Burda style pattern December 2009
For the first time ever I used muslin to construct the jacket. This was due to the fact that I had to come up with the pattern pieces for the peplum by myself and did not want to risk wasting my precious wool fabric.
For the peplum I pretty much just looked at the picture of the Project Runway jacket, drafted the pieces and cut them out from the muslin and attached them to the top part. And then I keep altering the pieces until they had the look I intended and that matched with the look on the picture. Let's say it took me a while :)
peplum pattern pieces
My first try cutting the pieces for the peplum. As you can tell I am pretty lazy with the iron when I sew :)
jacket muslin
The jacket muslin on the dressform. Yeah, I still got a lot of work to do at this point :)
cut out peplum pieces
The final pieces for the peplum all cut out from the wool fabric (and carefully labeled so that I wouldn't mess up later...)
charmed Liebling jacket buttons



I put three gray buttons onto the front panel and went for a decorative orange botton to go on the collar, just to pick up the colors from the lining. I found the same buttons in a smaller size and decided to put them onto the back of the sleeves as an additional accessory (you can see them in the picture below).

charmed Liebling Annas project runway jacket
I have only sewn maybe a handful of jackets/coats so far and I find it quite a challenge. Especially fitting in the lining properly is still a mystery to me. That being said I think my jacket could have turned out a lot worse LOL! Of course it doesn't look as polished as the original (also because I think Sonjia used cashmere... I wish!!) but overall I am pretty happy with the outcome. It is just too bad that it's still only 10°F in the Rochester area, so this is another item that will still have to sit in my closet for a while...
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Christine Welsh link
3/1/2014 08:22:18 am

Great job Anna! I used to make all my own clothes as a teenager (MANY moons ago) BUT long ago lost interest in making clothes....BUT...I have to admit lately I have had a twinge or two wanting to make something clothing related again....maybe....as of yet only a twinge! LOLLLL

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Anna
3/2/2014 11:56:25 pm

Thanks Christine! I know what you're saying, I started out with sewing clothing as well but over the last two years all I could think of was making bags bags bags... :-)

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