Simplicity 3758

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For those who are interested in such things, the jeans I'm wearing are unisex Proton shorts from Cyberdog.

Vogue 1225

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Vogue 1052

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The Fabric:

I can't figure out how to comment on my own blog (cringe!), so to answer Shams's question about the fabric: I got it from a factory outlet shop in South Africa. It is called a factory overprint and basically they used it to clean their printing machines between runs, so you have layers and layers of incompletely printed patterns on top of each other. It frequently looks a muddy mess, and can be as stiff as card, but if you unroll the roll you'll always find sections that are soft enough to use and look amazing. It is dirt cheap, even by South African prices, but as you would expect, not the greatest quality fabric. You can have a lot of fun practicing layouts and experimenting with it, e.g. if you have dark ink on top of colourful ink a bit of bleach can produce amazing results.

Vogue 8679 - TEST GARMENT

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This is a test version, with lots and lots of obvious fitting issues, but I thought folks might like to see some pictures of the jacket in a less-than-sober fabric. I intend to return to this pattern in 2013, so hopefully some pictures of a finished garment will go up here at some point.

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