I happened to be in Toronto earlier this year for work and much to my very pleasant surprise Toronto has a large number of nice fabric shops! Apparently this is due to a booming film industry in the city. One of my coworkers had to practically drag me out of King Textiles, which was good as I had already had a pretty big fabric binge.
King Textiles had a fantastic selection of wool, linen and above all, silk! I bought three different silks, two because I thought they might work for my jacket and one because it was on sale for 9.99 CAD/yard (even less USD!)! For silk dupioni! and it was an amazing color, though I did not have my wool with me, I did not anticipate it match my jacket's main fabric but low and behold, it's a fabulous combination - better than the other two choices I had bought in fact. No worries there, I will happily use them for other projects.
Can you tell that I am absolutely in love with my lining? I'm actually having a bit of a silk love affair right now. In addition to cutting my lining this week, I am also proofing a pattern for a blouse to be made from the blue china silk that was rejected as my lining and recently bought several lengths of silk charmeuse on a trip to the middle east, that was worth bearing the unbelievable heat for.
Preparing the lining was relatively straight forward, it's about time something was, yet not mistake free... When using a dupioni, the textured threads should go horizontally across the jacket. the interior seams need to be clipped along the curvature of the princess seams after they are sewn and you should use a polyester thread, I was feeling lazy and used my main jacket thread but really you *should* probably match the thread to your lining.
I'm also using a microtex sharp needle to make the holes in the silk as small as possible. I tried both a size 70 and a 80 needle but they both seems about the same to me.
Do you see the mistake I made in the photo above? That's right, I accidentally made two lefts. This is the problem when your fabric doesn't have a distinctive "wrong side." And I totally did not notice until after I clipped my seams and got ready to take this photo....so now I have to somehow fix that!
What are your silk sewing tips? I don't have a lot of experience working with silk but I am diving in and I would love to hear suggestions from others!
King Textiles had a fantastic selection of wool, linen and above all, silk! I bought three different silks, two because I thought they might work for my jacket and one because it was on sale for 9.99 CAD/yard (even less USD!)! For silk dupioni! and it was an amazing color, though I did not have my wool with me, I did not anticipate it match my jacket's main fabric but low and behold, it's a fabulous combination - better than the other two choices I had bought in fact. No worries there, I will happily use them for other projects.
Can you tell that I am absolutely in love with my lining? I'm actually having a bit of a silk love affair right now. In addition to cutting my lining this week, I am also proofing a pattern for a blouse to be made from the blue china silk that was rejected as my lining and recently bought several lengths of silk charmeuse on a trip to the middle east, that was worth bearing the unbelievable heat for.
Preparing the lining was relatively straight forward, it's about time something was, yet not mistake free... When using a dupioni, the textured threads should go horizontally across the jacket. the interior seams need to be clipped along the curvature of the princess seams after they are sewn and you should use a polyester thread, I was feeling lazy and used my main jacket thread but really you *should* probably match the thread to your lining.
I'm also using a microtex sharp needle to make the holes in the silk as small as possible. I tried both a size 70 and a 80 needle but they both seems about the same to me.
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| Jacket back. This makes me so aware of how wide my hips are! |
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| Can you spot the mistake I made and have to fix? |
What are your silk sewing tips? I don't have a lot of experience working with silk but I am diving in and I would love to hear suggestions from others!
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