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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Oh How I Detest My Seam Ripper!

That little gadget and I spent over 4 hours together yesterday.   Why, you ask?   Well, my wearable quilt art and I were having an argument over the red ribbon and I was losing.   I had to remove yards and yards of it, straighten out some major puckers, and cut and cut and cut the ribbon to bend the way I wanted it to.

We seem to be having a better time together today.



My Koos jacket is coming along now.  I have the jacket all together, the lining sewn and now have to attach the two to make them one.   This will definitely take a bit of time to do.

Last year when I made a wearable jacket, I made it all out of cotton.  I had a judge tell me that perhaps I should use other fabric.  This is  Serenity:


For my Koos jacket, (which has no name yet) I used silk dupioni, thai silk and a braided ribbon.  
Hope to finish in the next two days, wish me luck!

11 comments:

  1. Cool, Jackie! I love the silk! Hope you slap that seam ripper into submission today! And the ribbon, too! I hate it when I have to rip and rip. I usually just end up throwing it away. Probably can't afford to do that with silk dupioni!

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  2. Wow! I'm not much into quilted clothing but that jacket is beautiful - it's the beautiful colours... it must be something in real life.

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  3. Gorgeous! What a lot of talent!

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  4. Very beautiful jacket! I am so impressed. Hope you have better luck today ;)

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  5. The jacket is awesome....such great colors...my favorites! Hope you have better luck today...ripping out is not good!

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  6. That jacket is looking awesome! I can't believe the judge said that...love the Serenity jacket, too. Hope you and the ribbon don't argue any more!

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  7. That is just a gorgeous jacket!

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  8. wow! The outcome so far - outstanding!

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