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Nick, that is an amazing four-pocket waistcoat! Beautiful! Simply beautiful!
How true. I learned to sew when I was about 13, and have been doing it (in one form or another) ever since. My male friends think I'm a nut; my wife just smiles. My biggest project was in 1987-88, when I created and tailor-made six complete 18th Century French Aristocracy costumes (3 men and 3 women) for our wedding; I made everything, including the wigs and panniers...our theme was Baroness Orczy's "The Scarlet Pimpernel". I've learned a lot about clothing and sewing since then (dos and don'ts), and it's something I still enjoy doing, just as much as busting my knuckles and greasing my nails on my 1962 Ford Falcon hotrod! lolDC3 said:It is nice to see that other men have fun creating items.
DC3 said:Thank you Rob. Nice to be here. What a project you did for your wedding! My wife did a period piece for our niece and that alone took two weeks and three fittings. 62"Falcon.... My mom had a blue one....ah memories. Skidded on some packed snow once when I wasn't suppose to be driving it. Busted up the left rear tailight when I hit some guys fence or a fire hydrant. Forgotton which really. I do remember getting it all fixed before my parents came home though. Reliable car as I remember. Today my motorcycle get my attention.
Nick; I was typing an outline for a new book series a while back and had just saved it before I went and got myself a drink. When I came back the computer was in the middle of a restart. I was lucky but the next morning went out and bought myself a free standing hard drive. Now everything is backed up onto it, and all documents are saved to it rather than the "C" drive. In an emergency I grab that one unit and to heck with the CPU. Yes I have separate disks for my books as well.
Took picture of some items I made today and uploaded them to my blog www.krabtree.blogspot.com. Could not get the transfer from snapfish to work with this sites upload. No doubt me.
Nick D said:Dakotanorth, I'm afraid I didn't take construction pictures for this, but I'll take some when I make the jacket. I just started a pair of spats, and I'll be taking lots of pictures for that to make a tutorial (I'll be doing the same when I make a pair of knee-high spats for my wife).
Nick D said:
Pair of spats, cotton twill outer and heavy cotton lining, MOP buttons, corded keyhole buttonholes, and hand stitched eyelets. I made the pattern off a pair of old felt spats I have. I'll be putting together a tutorial for these, but I still have to finish the buttonhole one first.
Warbaby said:Those spats are absolutely beautiful, Nick! Can't wait to see the tutorial.
Wow....same here!Warbaby said:Those spats are absolutely beautiful, Nick! Can't wait to see the tutorial.