Happy New Year everyone.
I've been quietly lurking and not sewing except for domestic stuff.
But today I have a question.
I recently saw a book called "Cloth and Culture: Couture Creations of Ruth E. Funk" and this is book is now on the order list. It's a stunning book for it's eye candy appeal alone. A book that generates ideas and inspiration. In addition to that, there is the appeal of the repeated use of very simple patterns to create very varied looks.
There is one pattern Funk used repeatedly that has a number of us fascinated and trying to figure out how it was constructed. She says that she got the pattern originally from the Embroiderers Guild of America and that it uses 3 yards of fabric and has 2 seams. It's called the Othello coat and it appears to have a seam across the back at about shoulder blade height and then another seam from the neck down to the shoulder blade seam, but for some reason none of us could visualise how it came together. I guess we're all getting too old to figure such things out.
Anyone got any ideas as to how this coat goes together?
Fran