As promised, pictures of my progress with the Steffi.
Basting the lining and jacket together in preparation of sewing the facing on.
Completed basting ready and waiting for the facing.
Facing sewn on and sleeves hemmed. This is when I started to realize I was almost finished. And I still needed to go buy buttons.
I under stitched the facing's seam allowance. It gave the edge of the jacket a nice finished look to it, and it made the front of the jacket and the facing lay a lot nicer when i steam ironed it. I am defiantly doing this more in the future. (You can see that I hadn't taken out the basting stitch yet in this pic.)
In the end I did decide to finish the facings edge with bias binding, and it just so happened that I had some vintage bias binding in navy. (Side note: I need new fabric scissors.)
The Bias binding took a big chunk of time to complete, but the final look was worth it.
Bias binding attached and hand sewn to the lining.
Here's a close up of the finished edge.
Yesterday I also practiced button holes on my sewing machine the top three were my last attempts and my best. I'm still nervous about the button holes, but I am ready and know exactly what I'm doing.
Yesterday I braved the wind and the rain to buy these little buggers. BUTTONS! I finally went out and bought buttons for this jacket. I ended up buying fabric and there was tons of new stuff in the shop that I wanted to get.
There is one more day to my self imposed deadline to finish this jacket and I think I'm going to make it. All I have to do today is make six button holes and sew 6 buttons. And then voila, a jacket.
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