Piped trench

2014-04-05 03:00

From blog Handmade by Carolyn

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Piped trench

I have made a winter coat for myself! It's a dark charcoal woollen trench with the seaming and edging accented in pale grey/ivory/bone pleather piping. The charcoal wool has a light gauzy check woven throughout; itself with a teensy houndstooth pattern woven in each window. Clever. Seriously, I often wonder how they make these fabrics. Who would have conceived a thin houndstooth gauze, woven tartan-style into wool? The pattern is McCalls 5525; my third version of this pattern. This is such a great pattern; I completely love it! It's so versatile. Each of mine is quite different from the others; my first version is a smart but pretty-ish...

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