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Vogue 1129 Jacket Pattern Project

My last post was all so I could add the images of my fabric on to my spoonflower account but I've decided I would like to use my blog for more than that. So I've decided to go back in time by a few years and show some of the things I've been making in my spare time and explain why I've made what I've made.

I began making things when I was at school, cutting up my jeans to restyle them or up cycling old clothes into hand bags and the like. I loved Art and when choosing a career, I knew I wanted to do something creative - I'm now an Architect. Whilst I do get to do a lot of design work on a daily basis, designing on paper is in no way the same as crafting and realising the design yourselves. In my professional life, I have to rely on other peoples money (clients budgets) and contractors skills to progress my designs from paper to reality, but when I'm crafting I can spend as much or as little money as I want and I am in complete control of the quality of the finished product. 

That's why a few years ago I got a sewing machine and rediscovered my love for making things. This jacket is one of the first things I made with my sewing machine. The fabric came from Mandors, Glasgow. My favourite fabric shop. I could spend forever sitting at the pattern bench in store looking through the books deciding on what I want to make next.

For my first project I chose this Vogue pattern 1129.