Well, here's the jacket pattern I am starting with. Having had the pattern in my stash for some time (and after all, the pattern is called the "Stash Jacket") I decided it was time to put it to use. I viewed it as a jacket, something I'd do in firmer fabrics, and line it fully in a silky lining - cotton linings just stick to the butt. So I scrounged my stash and my local fabric stores and came up with the spectacular tapestry (photo to come), some floral home dec, some textured suedecloth, some lace, and a few other possibilities. I'm aiming for a look more like the red one - mostly darks in chocolate brown with touches of red and sand - rather than a mixture of light and darks just because I couldn't find the right mix of fabrics for light and dark.
Then last week I went hiking on a gorgeous autumn day with a girlfriend to a couple of waterfalls. And of course, like magnets, we're drawn to any quilt shops we pass along the way. One very nice store just east of Syracuse had the Stash Jacket pattern on display with a couple of samples. They were made from batiks and quilting cottons and had the look more of a shirt than a jacket. Totally blew my plans out the window in a moment of panic. I questioned my choice of fabrics, the size I should make it, the drape of the fabrics.
Later, as I had time to think about it some more, I decided I would makeup a muslin of the jacket in cottons to check the fit, and decide if I needed to bump it up a size to wear it as a jacket rather than a top. And I'll even get another wearable piece out of it for my wardrobe! And if the fit is too close to wear as a jacket even in a larger size, I can use a fall back TNT jacket pattern as the base, and cut it into similar pieces.
Phhhhewwww....crisis averted!
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