Remnant’s Rockin’ SWAP 2012

 

My Sewing with a Plan for 2012 is coming together. I have chosen all my fabrics and a few of the patterns. I’m calling this my Rockin’ SWAP because of the textured earth-tone fabrics in olive, gold, brown and winter-white.

The primary 7 garments I will be sewing:

1. Trousers - possibly Cutting Design’s One-Seam or Style Arc’s Linda.

A brown mystery fabric. Slight stretch.

2. Skirt – Pamela Pattern’s Magic Pencil Skirt

A beautiful knitty knit fabric.

3. T-Shirt – Paco Peralta’s Drape

A very light weight ribbed/slubbed knit.

4. Blouse – This is yet to be determined. There are so many styles I want to try, yet I must find one I wish to become a TNT (tried and true) according to SWAP rules.

Slight stretch. Beautiful tones.

5. Jacket – Loes Hinse Zipper

Fairly light weight, warm, great drape.

6. Coat – Kwik Sew 3095 (a boxy looking coat, but I like my coats loose fitting rather than tight and constricting)

  Green Corduroy. Thick. Maybe too stiff.

7. Over Coat – possibly Burda 7587 (a swing coat)

Wool. Thick. Love.

The 4 garments, which according to this year’s SWAP rules, I must repeat with the same or a different pattern:

8. Skirt

Stretch.

9. Blouse

Lovely. Just wait and see.

10. Jacket

Beautiful stretch velvet. Kind of furry.

11. Coat

Stretch velvet. Kind of stiff.

I will wait to determine whether to repeat the first pattern by how much I like the first choice once it is made up and worn. If I like it, if I determine I want to have a second in a different fabrication, I will repeat it, otherwise, I have plenty to choose from and will attempt a second style.

 

I had a relatively easy time choosing fabrics as I have discovered I purchase quite a few in this color-way. I love these dark, deep tones. Of course, as the weeks and months progress, I reserve the right to exchange a current fabric or pattern for another, but as it stands today, I love these choices. There is enough pattern to make it interesting, enough texture to make it fun and enough styles to make it challenging. Perhaps I will add a bit of embellishment as my heart leads, perhaps with some decorative stitching using the cams on my SuperNova and using a few seed beads. Ideas are ruminating.

 

According to SWAP rules, I can start fitting muslins now and can even complete 2 garments prior to the Dec 26 start date. YAY! Eleven well-fitted garments seems a mighty large task to complete by April 30. But the goal is to make future sewing more rewarding by having these well-fitted, TNT’s at hand. The effort will have long-lasting reward.

 

But I do have to say….I’m sorely tempted to hold off on the SWAP sewing in order to make this Koos Coat…

I’ve chosen tentative fabrics, in grey tones and a wee spot of red. My fabrics aren’t as wonderful as those pictured, but one must work within one’s budget, darn it all. My patterns are much more subdued, and perhaps that fits my style a bit better anyway.