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dress - burda 09/2012, #107

made this dress back in november

but it took me ages to take pics

(even those crappy phone ones)

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had only 1.1m of fabric

and somehow squeezed dress out of that..

i managed to make front symmetric

back is a mess

but i can live with that

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dunno what the fabric is supposed to be used for

wouldn't be surprised if it's upholstery 

it's quite stiff..

but i loved the print

(and it hides seams pretty well..

so you don't get to see my freestyle back double pointed darts

that are everything but symmetric)

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mokosha

coat time

coat - burda (08/2012, #101)

shirt - burda (05/2012, #104)

pants - burda (07/2011, #102)

bought this houndstooth wool boucle few years ago

with idea of turning it into a cape,

but that never happened

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last winter i planned to turn it

into burda's coat from one of the 70s issues,

and even traced billion pattern pieces

but winter never came

so i abandoned that idea too

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this winter i thought i might use the fabric 

to make burda's oversized coat from 2012

but that would probably end up as another forgotten plan

if it wasn't for my friend tea

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one day last month

we were having one of our usual never ending talks 

probably fueled with too many beers

and the idea of coat challenge was born!

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we choose february 15th as a deadline

and while tea finished her coat on time

and even managed to finish another one in the meantime

i was late, as usual

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i finally managed to finish it yesterday

so tea and i met to take pics of our coats together 

(well, not really together, as there is not a single pic of two of us together)

we barely had time to take any pics at all 

since i was so late, that we had only last moments of daylight to shoot them,

and that's why there are no any details pictured

no lining shots, and the coat is not buttoned in any of the pics

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it's fun to have a new coat finally

as i'm constantly wearing the one that i've made 5 years ago

and even though it still holds up pretty well

i kind of got a bit tired of it

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now go check out tea's amazing coat

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mokosha