The Denim jacket is becoming a DEMON jacket. The leather is a bit thick at intersecting seams so I'm spending time skiving (to skive: a leather working process that thins leather for sewing by shaving away top or bottom layers of the leather) the shoulder areas and then hammering the seams flat with a large mallet. I'm not going to use any leather on the collar unless it's for embellishment and the leather stays out of the seam allowances. The piping in the seams is being enormously tricky because the piping is trying to stretch one way while the denim want to stretch another way ad they two get into all kinds of fights and arguments. I can hear them in the sewing room now fighting over the waist to hip curve.
Overall, technical glitches aside; I am quite pleased with how it is turning out. It's project that is more about the details and the decoration than the actual pieces being sewn together. There are still rivets to add, eyelets to hammer in, collar points, top stitching, and edge trims that need to be added. It's the devilish details that will either make or break the jacket.
We are having an extended period of sunshine, slightly above freezing temperatures and lots of melting snow and ice. It's maple syrup weather. It's also perfect weather for long walks and thinking about gardens. I am now craving spring onions, fresh dandelion greens and fresh winter-cress and wild broccoli!
And not only is it early spring it's time for the annual "odd book title award" poll. This years candidates are The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich, Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Plane, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots, What Kind of Bean is this Chihuahua, and last and surely he least: The Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter. Needless to say, I'm voting for the crochet book! http://www.thebookseller.com
So that's all. It's off to the sewing room for a while, then off for a nice long spring walk! Later
