Chiffon coat

I just want to state, here and now, that I hate to work with is Chiffon. So when Jim asked me to make a coat for club kids out of chiffon, it was not something I was looking forward to making. It's not a material that I've had a lot of experience using. I find it difficult to work with, constantly freying and puckers easily.  All the same, I accept the challenge and get to work on it. The look he was going for was something like the following;

So, as a base I used Simplicity pattern 1284, and then puff out the sleeves to achieve the above look. 

The material Jim chose, was pink, graduating for a darker to a lighter pink.

Although there was no pattern matching, I still wanted to get the graduated colours to match, going from the darker at the top to lighter at the bottom. The pattern itself is fairly straight forward, if I was using a material for which the pattern was design for.

I was planning to use the overlooker, to speed things up and to have nice neat seams without freying, but as this broke recently I had to resort back to my Singer, and finishing the seam off with a zig zag stitch. I did consider using a French seam, which would have been neater, but also would have taken longer, and I only had a week to make it.

I hate this material!!

Unfortunately, the finished item was too small and adjustments had to be made. At this point I was so frustrated with the piece that I passed it onto the boyfriend to finish off, and what a good job he did with it as well!

Photo by Captured by Corinne

Photo by Captured by Corinne