I'm itching to move onto something I can wear this winter....so I'm starting on McCall 8501 from 1935:
Isn't it a beauty? I love the jacket (there is only a jacket front pattern piece--apparently the belt keeps the cape on) and the collar!
I'm making it in this fantastic tweed plaid that I picked up at a charity shop (only in Scotland can you pick up nice tweed and wool in charity shops!!!):
But it was a weird experience at the charity shop because they didn't have any fabric in the shop. So I asked the guy working behind the cash register if they had any fabric and he said, "let me check in the back room". So he takes me to this back room and there's another store employee there and she said, "oh yes, we set aside all fabric for a woman that comes and buys vintage fabrics, whatever she didn't want is in this suitcase." And there I found 3.5 yards of this tweed and an identical tweed in brown (also 3.5 yards) and about 3 yards of matching grey lining fabric. Major score! Now, I always ask about fabric!!
I am going to try and interline (with the help of Gertie's interlining vlog) and also line this cape (with the gray lining fabric). This will be my first time doing either! I'm very excited as it looks like a fairly straight forward but elegant pattern.
