Vestacular

So today I finished the vest with Talia's help. Here are some progress pics

So this is one of the front piece with the interfacing on the back

All the pieces cut out

This is actually where I left if off last night. You can see the added pockets. The top ones are for watches and accessories and the bottom ones are for tools. My character for Halloween is a steampunk engineer so thatss why I wanted to have screwdrivers and the likes. I like the idea, but I am not to happy about how I executed it. To prevent there from being a raw edge I actually cut out 2 pieces of fabric for each pocket, sewed them together, inverted them and then top stitched them to the top of the vest. This proved to be very difficult to line up with the fabric pattern. On the other hand the top pockets actually turned out fairly well. They line up almost perfectly with the vest pattern. At this point I hadn't done the lining yet. That is what I spent all of today doing

So I cut out all the lining fabric and put them all together, I even pinned the pieces to the vest how they needed to be to sew them together, but then I lost steam and just couldn't finish. So Talia was wonderful enough to sew the rest of it together. I was cooking dinner when she finished it so I couldn't try it on so Talia went and put it onto her mannequin on top of her shirt. When I saw this it looked very much like a catholic school girl outfit, but Talia said it was missing a tie... So I got a tie for it.

Finally, the nice lining which I see as brown but Talia keeps calling pigeon grey. 

Now I just have to do the pants (should be easy) and a hat and I'm all good :)

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