So, a while ago I wrote the trouble I had with the jacket. I wanted to have that kind of bottom extra length but as I did not had the pattern, I tried to make it by myself. I managed it but I was never fully happy with it.
After finishing the skirt and trying it all with the pannier and petticoat, I realized that I had not considered the way skirt is expanding and the sides of the jacket (over the skirt) were looking very weird.
So, I decided to scrap the whole idea and just make similar ruffle at the bottom of the jacket as I had at the bottom of the skirt and use another line of black ribbon above it. This worked much better and looked neat:
For closing the jacket, I used lot of snap fasteners. I think there were more than 20 of them but it made the jacket close really nice. In the end, I actually sew few fabric made hooks at the top so that it would look like the hooks are actually used for closing the jacket.
The hooks I got from fabric shop were redish but not the same tone as the ruffles and they did not matched. Therefore - I had to make them more purple. I got purple silk paint that was in right tone and then I just soaked the hooks on it. It was all in the very last minute and it took a day to try. The paint said that to make the paint stick, I had to iron it but the hooks also had plastic pearls on it, so I actually couldn't iron it very much as they started to melt.
Anyway.. I ruined one hook and had to color another one. So the night before leaving for the larp, I had four hooks on the jacket, the last one was drying and I hoped I will not forget it to take it with me early in the morning when the plain goes.
Anyway.. Time had ran out. "Hell on Wheels" started tomorrow and my dress was mostly done. Yay :D
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So, I decided to scrap the whole idea and just make similar ruffle at the bottom of the jacket as I had at the bottom of the skirt and use another line of black ribbon above it. This worked much better and looked neat:
The hooks I got from fabric shop were redish but not the same tone as the ruffles and they did not matched. Therefore - I had to make them more purple. I got purple silk paint that was in right tone and then I just soaked the hooks on it. It was all in the very last minute and it took a day to try. The paint said that to make the paint stick, I had to iron it but the hooks also had plastic pearls on it, so I actually couldn't iron it very much as they started to melt.
Anyway.. I ruined one hook and had to color another one. So the night before leaving for the larp, I had four hooks on the jacket, the last one was drying and I hoped I will not forget it to take it with me early in the morning when the plain goes.
Anyway.. Time had ran out. "Hell on Wheels" started tomorrow and my dress was mostly done. Yay :D
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