この様なブロガーさん達と交流する企画に参加したのは初めてだったのですが今回はTJのおかげでとても楽しかったです。新たなブログも発見できるので面白そうな企画を見つけたらまた遊んでみたいと思います。
First of all, I thank TJ of The Perfect Nose who organized "One Cool Thing, One Strange Thing Swap". I also appreciate her effort to sort everything out. She sent me fabulous Indian silk fabric, three of cool patterns (Simplicity, McCalls and Vogue). Additionally, she sent me a virtual (she calls so :P) parcel too in which some of useful and cool scanned sewing books were contained. Thank you TJ, I will buy you dinner when you get lost and starving in Japan. Oh, she deserves more? I agree.
Belatedly this is a short jacket ensemble I have finally finished. I chose a McCalls one because I liked the outfit most and its size was luckily closest to my size. But I still had to deal with sizing and ended up re-drafting referring to the original. I made some changes to it. For the dress, I made the front neck line squire-ish and reduced open V-back to hide bra band. As for the jacket, I shortened jacket length and made neckline a little wider. I made a tie out of the fabric and put it onto the jacket edges adding tucks. I have done this before using grosgrain ribbon. Last of all, I made attachable shoulder bows like cap sleeves. Now I think that looks too girly...
TJ's strange thing has now turned cool things!
