Wick – Double Diamonds: Week 10, 6 July

Another quiet week has slipped into history, drifting down the stream of time with few events poking above the surface. One of these was the dress I’d been making, which is a few stitches away from being finished. When one of the lapels is tacked down to keep it in place becomingly, it will be complete. Sea View The fabric for the next project, a lightweight jacket, has been washed and dried. The fabric for it, a mid-weight tufted denim, immediately caught my eye when I saw it online. One of my hurdles to jump in this project, was when I found a shortfall of over half a meter in the amount of fabric I had compared to the amount required. Over the past few days I’ve figured out that I bought the fabric to make a different jacket. Another hurdle was that the fronts on the jacket are cut double, which won’t work with this fabric. Online reviews mentioned this, and it had puzzled me. But these reviews also pointed to a way forward – line the jacket with a lighter fabric. Fortunately,…