Pattern drafting in the sun!

[koffipot]

garden by koffipot, on Flickr

I was wearing sunscreen, the fellow below wasn't! Don't think he'll be eating my plants tonight!!


garden by koffipot, on Flickr

[eve]

I bought a shell the other day from the charity shop and have been felting a snail to live in it... reminds me of the above photo

[lyn]

I admire your discipline - when I'm in the garden the tendency to relax and just chill, or perhaps nod off, is always too much!

[MTRuth]

Is it a pattern for another jacket?

[koffipot]

The intention is to make a winter coat in shop bought fabric, I have neither the space not the energy to make sufficient felt for a long coat!

[Shepherdess]

Your garden looks lovely , what we can see of it. I love patterns made to fit. It is so nice when clothes fit properly. At the moment stores either have tents or stuff that fits like a second skin.
Ann

[billieanne]

You look lovely. I wish I could sit in my garden but I always see a weed that needs pulling or something that needs trimming.

Judith, I was looking at your Flickr pics and saw your bubble felt. Can you tell me  where I can find instructions for that felt technique?

[koffipot]

Crealou: - Ann has a tutorial here:- feltingandfiberstudio.com/2012/09/05/felt-bubbles/

We have to work somewhere, so why not take advantage of some nice weather and do it in the garden The weeds will still be there when the sun goes in.

Ann thanks, it's not a very big garden, but we like it. As for pattern drafting, it's time consuming, but I quite enjoy the discipline, it's now at the toile (muslin in US) stage and looking OK, though I need to redraft the sleeves as I'm not happy with them. Will I get it right and have a new winter coat?? I'll let you know!

By the way - will you have new boots for next winter?

[zed]

I'd love a felt coat for winter! Like those Afghan's of the 70's, but with wool and locks

[koffipot]

More bubble felt, with bubbles snipped and made into flower shapes, a few beads added for stamens.


bubble felt by koffipot, on Flickr

[Shepherdess]

I have a friend that knows how to do pattern drafting. She helped me a lot when I made a felt jacket. I would like to do it again with different felt. I would like it to be felted more but I would not have had enough fabric if I had not stopped fulling when I did. I need darts and the arms are usually wrong for me. I need more ease on the top not the bottom of the sleeve. I have muscles that I guess I am not supposed to have.

[billieanne]

Judith, Thanks for the link. Uhhhhhhh, love those purple and blue bubbles sitting in the boxwood.
I can't ignore weeds. I've even picked weeds when I stopped at a friend's house. We were talking in her garden and I was bending down picking weeds. Then I had to stop because that was rude and I apologized. She laughed and said I could pick weeds in her garden any time. My grandmother told me I should be careful because a weed isn't always a weed. It's only a weed if it's not growing where you want it to.

[koffipot]

Billieanne, sorry I called you Crealou in a previous post, I think it's because you have the same avatar!!

[MTRuth]

Love the flowers made from bubbles. Billianne, you're welcom at my house anytime. I have tons of weeds you can pull

[billieanne]

Judith, I knew you meant me. Our avatar's are similar. I'm the one with the big mouth and green eyes! My friends call me Bill or Bobbie (another friend in our group). When my mom is hurrying she rattles through all my sisters names until she gets to me. My one sister kids her saying "who am I today?".
Ruth, I'm a weeder. When I had more free time I use to volunteer at Historic sites and weed their gardens. It's a job no one wants and people leave you alone because they want you to come back.