Suit 1: Quick off the blocks!

Main fabric disintered from stash: Very dark navy with white pinstripe at 1/4" intervals. Wool/poly mix, ideal for speed tailoring. Lining, pocketing, waistband stuff, and more hair canvas ordered from Sidtrim Male tailor's dummy ordered: should arrive tomorrow... Version 1 of pattern for jacket and trousers drafted and printed. Will need to draft lining pattern... I love Tailor Made! Tailoring book ordered. Not sure if it'll arrive in time, but this is an extra as I alread have the basic info elsewhere... It's more for the 'proper' suit later...

To do this pm: Clear off cutting surfaces Tile and stick patterns together. Cut and sew toiles.

This will be a Fast Suit, using speed tailoring and machine finishing wherever possible. It'll do to test the pattern. If I need to refine the pattern, I can do so for the Good Suit later. I'll try to do pix, but they may be less helpful than some of my past projects due to time constraints.

Have already committed most of tomorrow to another project (my LSF student), so time even more precious than usual. But c'mON! Have I not pulled rabbits from places where there were no hats until I made them?

Had beans on toast for lunch, so am suitably fueled up for jet-propelled sewing! :P

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Kate XXXXXX
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First pattern is cut out. I have some questions, though, for Tailor Made users. I'll start another thread.

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Kate XXXXXX

PROGRESS REPORT...

After the discussions on the Tailor Made thread, I decided that this time, for speed I'd go with the Burdastyle pattern as it has all the elements I want. I've cut it out and altered the bits that needed it, and dialed up Fred to the right measurements.

Now to cut a quick toile...

Oh, and the cats put their stamp of apprival on the back of the pattern! Row of little muddy footprints on the paper...

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Kate XXXXXX

MORE PROGRESS!

Toile made up and fitted (without sleeves).

Expected shoulder alteration done and fitted... Need to transfer that to the pattern, and then cut the suit itself. I'd like to have that ready for a fitting when Alan gets back on Wednesday.

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Kate XXXXXX

WOW!!! Very impressive!

Beverly, almost ready to finish installing the lining for the velvet jacket....

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BEI Design

Well you know what I'm like for FTL sewing! Once I get my teeth into a project...

The toile took 40 minutes to cut out. The suit jacket itself will take longer as there will be all the interlining and the lining as well. And I shall need to press the lining first...

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Kate XXXXXX

Mine is lined-to-the-edge with black silk Duchess satin (from thaisilks.com). I have it all pin basted and ready to sew. I'm going for one last fitting tomorrow to be sure DGD likes the soft boning I put in the side seams, if she doesn't I'll take it out before closing up. Then it's just applying the silver braid trim, hand sew 10 sets of hooks-and-eyes down the fronts, install ten buttons on the fronts, and 6 buttons on the sleeves. Yeah! She will wear it for the first time in competition this Saturday with her old borrowed blue kilt.

I'll start on her new kilt soon... after I get all the holiday decorations put away. ;-}

Beverly

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BEI Design

Oh good your's aren't all away either. I thought mine were until I walked into the living room the other day and realized that my Father Christmas collection was still sitting out. I have about 50 pieces to wrap and pack. Well maybe tomorrow, she said with a sigh. Juno

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Kate wrote: I love Tailor Made! Tailoring book ordered. Not sure if it'll arrive in time, but this is an extra as I alread have the basic info elsewhere... It's more for the 'proper' suit later...

My question: I'm new here, so this may be a dumb question......BUT What is "Tailor Made"?

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Chris R

Careful with putting away decorations it can lead to all sorts of trouble: We got the tree down on Friday evening and then completely re-arranged the living room on Saturday as part the TV saga(1), during which process various baubles turned up in odd places courtesy of the cats.

(1) A couple of years ago DH transported a video conferencing suite for a friend who had bought it on Ebay. As payment we were given one of the monitors which worked perfectly well as a TV via our satellite dish/box thingy. A few weeks before Christmas it went fizz-bang and let the smoke out of a vital component(2) and we brought the previous TV out of storage to use. I was quite happy with it, but on after taking down the Christmas tree DH decided the screen was too small and we got a new flat screen one in the sales. Now DH has gone away on business and I have got to drill holes to get the aerial connected up as it now needs to come up out of the floor in a different place.... I must admit the new TV is nice.

(2) All electronics runs on smoke - once you let the smoke out it won't work again....

Lizzy

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Lizzy Taylor

Wild Ginger's Tailor Made is pattern drafting software for men's clothing, part of a whole site of plug-together drafting stuff foe making patterns. See more and get downloadable demo versions here:

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Beverly

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BEI Design

Kate wrote; Wild Ginger's Tailor Made is pattern drafting software for men's clothing, part of a whole site of plug-together drafting stuff foe making patterns. See more and get downloadable demo versions here:

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Me: Thank you so much for posting that. I'm already finding the site exciting. Ever since I was a youngster, I've taken parts of patterns and combined them for what I've wanted. This would make it even easier. May have to invest.

Thanks again Chris

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Chris R

I've been making 'Frankenpatterns' for almost 40 years. ;) Great way to learn what does and doesn't work without having to start from scratch every time. When you know a bit about drafting and how patterns are developed from an original bloc, it gets even more fun, and the software has lots of basics and things to play with.

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Jacket toile body cut and completed by Monday evening. Alterations made and test fitted. Collar bits and sleeves tested yesterday. All good to go.

Main jacket fabric cut yesterday. Main interfacing (high quality fusible hair canvas) cut last night.

Lining cut this morning...

In fact, what I've done today so far is looking good as a list!

Up at seven: wake GMNT Make lunch for GMNT and take him breakfast. By eight I had had breakfast and he was out the door, dressed and with all his kit...

It's now nearly 10, and I have dressed, breakfasted, made coffee, and cut that lining. I've also given away a sewing machine, had a natter, and answered a couple of emails. :) Next up is do all the fusing, then a bit of tidying up in the sewing room (I did all the toile sewing standing up with my latest acquisition - Big Sis's Husqvarna Viking Quantum 190. It has about 3 acres of foot pedal, and is great for sewing on the hop like this...

Today I hope to get the bulk of the jacket put together and do a toile for the trousers.

Last night I swear that fabric had grown... I thought I'd bought about

5m... Enough for a suit for a bloke. But I've cut the jacket out and there's about 5m left! As it's 62" wide, I'll get the trousers out of a single width, so there's going to be enough left to do a nother whole suit... Maybe I'll do one for James in 2 or 3 years, when he hits sixth form. They wear suits in years 12 & 13 at his school, not uniform. It's so funny... They go home at the end of year 11 in July looking like scruffy kids, and come back in September 5 weeks later looking like they all growd up over the summer! :D

Right,! Fire up the afterburners! Let's get this sewing machine off the ground... CONTACT... CHOCKS AWAY! ;)

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Kate XXXXXX

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