While I was making the rainbow shiny on purple motorcycle jacket, I was thinking of my next project, which was going to be the second version of the apple cardigan, and my brain said, "Well, what about making the Know Me ME2011 motorcycle jacket from the apple knit?"
So I did.
It turned out just as wonderfully obnoxious as I imagined.
Apple Cardigan The First happened about two months ago. It was...not what I wanted. But! It held the promise of what I wanted, and the fabric not only still being in stock at Fabric Mart, but also dropped in price, prompted me to order more and try again.
This time, I would make it a size larger. This time, I would use contrast rib knit for the bands. And then! When I had everything laid out, ready to start cutting the fabric, I received a package from a friend with some surprise vintage buttons in it, and one set was perfect for this fabric...if the rest of the project lived up to my expectations.
It did!
Using New Look 6120 once again, and hearkening back to the first time I used it by once again making the shell from a foiled synthetic knit.
...although I may have gotten very slightly excessive with the pockets...
Some of the sewn tights I made--this pair and one of these pairs--I wore so much that the heels wore out. Instead of darning them when the holes first appeared, I let them go until the holes were undeniable, and decided to cut them off just above the highest hole and finish the edges, turning them into leggings. I also decided to cut off the toe areas and do the same to the tights made from what turned out to be very baggy rib knits.
It took a while between deciding to do this and finally doing this, but the project suddenly became very attractive as a way to procrastinate figuring out what to do with the last fabric from that big Fabric Mart order. I'm wearing the gray now-leggings today, and they're perfectly functional leggings. Yay.
After I finished cutting out the jacket in the previous post, I still had a sizable chunk of fabric left. I knew there would be enough to make a skirt, although I figured it would be a miniskirt, which would work fine with the Jem & The Holograms vibe the jacket had.
I finished making the jacket and laid out the remaining fabric and realized...there was enough for a long skirt--a long slim skirt, but, still. And I actually felt like that would be even more Jem Style.
So I got out Simplicity 9815 and started cutting. I didn't have quite enough to reach the full length as given, but I got close. I also decided to line it, because I almost always line a slim skirt.
The pattern illustration shows a lapped zipper in back, and I've wanted to get more comfortable installing lapped zippers, so I prepared to do that, but it was late, so I wasn't actually going to sew it until the next day. This gave me time to have the idea to put a welt pocket with a flap--using pattern pieces for the welt pocket with flap from the jacket--off center on the front of the skirt.
The pocket is there. Really.
Know Me 2011, that is--the motorcycle jacket pattern I like the most.
I have, before this post, made 2011 once before, and that was almost a year and a half ago. Honestly, most of what I wrote about the pattern alterations and construction process in that previous post apply to this post, but, this time, the finished jacket looks like this
ee hee hee
After turning the failed tights into a skirt in the previous post, I still had the lower portions of one of those pairs of failed tights left, so I decided to slap some decorative elastic on the tops of them and make some socks.
