I've Been Searchin'

Yesterday, I cut out the McCall jacket.  This particular houndstooth is small-scale, maybe 1/4".  It's one of those fabrics that causes your eyes to cross when you stare at it.  There's no way I could eyeball the stripes to line up pattern pieces.  So, I used some colored transparent tape, and taped a horizontal line.

I marked a horizontal line across the pattern at the underarm so I could line it up with the tape on the fabric.  

I lined the CF and CB with a vertical stripe.  And all was well.  Until today.

This morning, I decided to re-draft the facings.  I fused Pam's Pro-Weft interfacing, which is rapidly becomming my favorite all-around fusible. 

This jacket is so easy that a beginner could sew it.  That is, unless you make it complicated, which I seem to be doing.  I wanted patch pockets on both fronts.  I looked through an old book by Claire Schaefer and found exactly what I was looking for.

The pockets will be piped in red satin, left over from the SantaPurse.  I went to the cabinet where a roll of rat-tail cord is kept.  It's been in that cabinet for years.  But it's not there today.  I pulled everything out, looking through every box.  No cord.   Bah!  While searching, I had my hand on a shelf, and put too much weight on it, when ker-plunk the shelf went down and me with it.  I busted my lip.

I gave up the search and made a sample of the piping without a  filler cord.

While walking the "dreadmill" later, and thinking about that rat-tail, I went to a storage closet where there's a bin or two of sewing projects, and there was the cord.  Yay! 

Me and my disfigured lip will try again tomorrow to start sewing this jacket.