I bought this fabric for George some time ago at Leandro Fabrics (Adam’s wedding) but never made it up. The fabric is a beautiful wool and cashmere blend in charcoal gray with subtle caramel woven checks: The photographs I am getting are either too dark and you can’t see the pattern, or too light:
substantial fiddling with Photoshop has occurred and I still don’t have it quite right but I am no expert. The problem seems to be with getting the white balance/light settings on my camera set correctly but I can’t seem to quite manage it. I suppose I should consult with George, he is the photographer after all, but then we will spend an afternoon fiddling with it and I would rather be sewing.
This is pretty close and I love the subtle variation in the two shades of caramel. I actually bought a good bit more than I need. What was I thinking?? Was I thinking at all? I might have enough for a skirt as well. The trick then will to be to convince the darling spouse that he is not doing me a favor by wearing the vest that matches my skirt when we go out together. Hmmm…. Perhaps I should rethink this.
This is the pattern:
I really am not sure of the fit.: both of his existing vests fit badly, in different ways, so they don’t even provide consistent pattern help. He is in between two sizes in men’s jackets so I will just work from there. I did find a few minutes yesterday to cut a muslin and get it stitched together for a try-on. Here are the results:
I might get another muslin constructed today: they don’t take all that long after all, but Thursday will be a complete wash-out in terms of sewing time as I have to go into NYC and if the weather is nice the weekend must be spent in the garden dealing with the partially landscaped pile of mud and leaves that is left behind after last week’s rains.