Nearly there...
6 September 2007, 10:28Remember that velvet pirate jacket I was working on, ooh, two years ago? Well, as much as I hate that thing and all of the fabric choices associated with it, I have been slogging through and doing a few things to it here and there over the past few months.
But announcing our boatwarming pirate pirate for next Saturday has really stepped up the pressure and made me knuckle down and make some serious progress on it. Now I’ve only got about an hour’s worth of hemming left (after putting in 2.5 hours on that hem already – it’s much wider than it looks!) before it’s FINISHED FOREVER. It’s nice timing that Pattern Review are running an Unfinished Object contest right now, too. Frankly, I’ll be so happy when this is finished that it’ll be a prize in itself… I’ll go into more detailed with the full pirate costumes next week, but until then, have a look at the Cthulu I found on the back of the jacket!
Disappointingly, it looks as though my interview has been cut from the New York times IKEA hacks article today, though at least I’m the first photo in the online slideshow, which is a consolation of sorts!
tags: jacket, menswear, press, velvet
I’m so sorry to hear about the interview! I was looking forward to reading it!
I can’t wait to see the finished jacket – it’s looking lovely from the preview so far!
— stacy Sep 6, 01:16 PM #
You may not have made the article, but you did make the front page. (The dress, at least.) You can even download an image of it:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
— Brian Sep 6, 03:58 PM #
That’s lame, to use your image but not your interview! I hope they at least credited you properly in the caption?
— Kirsty Sep 7, 12:01 AM #