{"id":215,"date":"2012-12-05T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T06:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailysew.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:53:08","slug":"the-start-of-a-new-project-a-wool-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-start-of-a-new-project-a-wool-coat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of a New Project &#8211; A Wool Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-M8MlF9XR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I always say if I&#8217;m going to take the time to make a garment then I&#8217;m going to take the time to make it right. Trying my best to be efficient, by all means, but no short cuts.\u00a0 And now I sound like a complete hypocrite by challenging myself to get this coat done in 17 days (which would be plenty of time if I didn&#8217;t also work a full time job).<\/p>\n<p>Well, I will always choose to sew it right over being quick. So, it sounds hypocritical but in practice it won&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I shopped for a winter coat but just couldn&#8217;t find anything I loved (I live in a small-ish market so choices here are not as many). I needed a short coat so I found three patterns I liked (all Burda, imagine that) and finally choose the more classic, 7423.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-216\" title=\"Burda\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Burda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Burda.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Burda-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks ago I found the wool at our local fine garment fabric store, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabricsandbuttons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waechter&#8217;s<\/a> (if you&#8217;re ever visiting Asheville you need to stop by Waechter&#8217;s). They were having a sale and so I splurged on the fabric I loved, a dark blue, Italian wool blended with Alpaca with an almost fake fur look due to the deep pile.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a week to finish up a different project but now I&#8217;m free to start on this project and excited to do so. I&#8217;m hoping to have it done in just over two weeks but I can tell already it&#8217;s going to be tough to stick to my ambitious plan. Not because I&#8217;m a slacker (not always) but because I chose the daily goals with optimism and you never know what you may run into.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep you posted on what I learn along the way and hopefully it will all be good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-217\" title=\"wool coat notes\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wool-coat-notes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wool-coat-notes.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wool-coat-notes-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always say if I&#8217;m going to take the time to make a garment then I&#8217;m going to take the time to make it right. Trying my best to be efficient, by all means, but no short cuts.\u00a0 And now I sound like a complete hypocrite by challenging myself to get this coat done in [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-start-of-a-new-project-a-wool-coat\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[53,13,12,4,47,36],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing-clothes","tag-burda","tag-fabric","tag-patterns","tag-sewing","tag-winter-coat","tag-wool-coat"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EZxn-3t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}