A fine waled red corduroy jacket

I recently made a lady's black canvas jacket for a friend of mine.

It happened to be a scucces. So I did not hesitate to make another jacket, this time from a fine waled red corduroy fabric

Actually, the two of us had bought both fabrics at the same day, shopping around in Amsterdam's Albert Cuyp Market. So this project already was in prospect., the black one being a trial version.

Basically this red jacket in it's model is like the black one. But the impression it makes is quite different.

For example because of the arrangement and the lustrous effect of the buttons and the absence of top stichting with a different coloured yarn.

My friend once more was happy with this this jacket. It suits her well. And I liked to assemble it.

Assembling? Indeed, above picture shows some of the cut out parts of this jacket that urgently need to be assembled.

Corduroy pants

Beige corduroy pants....a good idea or what?

Corduroy can be dangerous for pants beacuse some colors and cuttings come close to what is worn by some guys I do not want to be associated with (who also drive the wrong cars, tell the wrong jokes, and frequent the wrong pubs).

Nevertheless, when I came along this fabric I just had to give it a try, and here is the result.

This one has side pockets and the back side has patched pockets with a flap.

As I said in an earlier post I don't like a fly with a zipper. I prefer the construct with buttons, which can be made rather easily.

A small strip of some 3,5 cm is sewn to the top left side of the right leg. 

On this strip the buttons will be sewn

 

The buttonholes are made in another strip, which has the same size.

This one will be sewn to the top right side of the left leg.

You need some technics to do this in the correct way, 

and stitching should be done from the good side of the fabric 

and with a nice curve at the lower end of the stitching

But the result may be fine

So far I feel happy with my new pants. We'll have some sun this weekend,  so I'll put them on, go to the correct pubs, make correct jokes and drive my (obviously correct)  car.

A light grey, fine waled corduroy gilet

This is a gilet I recently have finished. It has been made from a light grey, fine waled corduroy. That's to say: the two front pieces. The back part is a grey striped woolen fabric.

As I said in a former post, gilets are easy to make, once you have a pattern that produces a nice fitting item.

I made this one with pockets that in french are named passepoilé. I am not sure what this is called in english, probably a welt pocket. 

The idea is to stitch two small stripes of fabric on the front side and to fold these inward along an incision that is cut in the front part of the garment. The left and right parts of that incision end in small triangles, which are also folded inside (to be stitched through, later on)

 

This is how it looks like from the front side.

The pockets themselves are fixed by stitching through the upper and lower lines of the folded stripes, including the upper and lower parts of the pocket. Easily said, harder done, but certainly fun to do.

The garment has a black lining on the inner side, and a strip of the corduroy fabric, as the following picture shows. I also provided small interior pockets, just to keep some tickets or some small change. 

The next picture shows inner- and outside pinned together. The two top parts and the left and right parts are not to be stitched in this phase, because they later on have to be sewn to the adjacent parts of the rear section of the garment. 

 

Having attached rear and front parts, the gilet wll be almost finished. Just some button holes, and buttons, and here you are: a nice gilet:

 Good idea to have it combined with the light blue denim shirt I made earlier. 

Gilets in black

Gilets are easy to manufacture. Once you have a nice looking pattern, that produces well fitting clothes, the only thing you have to do is to select some fabrics that will do to back up your personality (and cut and stitch carefully and in the right order, of course).


I manufactured some gilets in black. Above is one I made from a remainder of a striped black denim I used for a pair of jeans.  


The pockets are what in french are called poches passepoilées, in english probably welt pockets, in dutch paspelzakken.


The backside is a simple gray corduroy.

Here is another black gilet I made. The front is a very fine waled corduroy fabric with small motives. I came along this one in a local shop with supplies for knitting and sewing in the community of Dieren, where they had a number of these very thin corduroy fabrics.


The backside has been made of a simple grey, sofly striped cotton fabric.


The pockets once more are welt pockets, this time with flaps. And the buttons were recycled from a garment, one time bought in an  "America Today" shop.

And here is a gilet made from a more wide wale black corduroy fabric, front and back manufactured with the same material.


This is one of the first gilets I made. The pattern is a bit different from the other two, and I prefer the pattern of these two, because of a better fitting and look.