Julia (apologising for the quality of the photos) wearing her navy wool jersey cover up using Burda 6850. She was really pleased with both the weight and drape of the fabric. This is a really nice simple Autumn cover-up!
Blue Wool Jersey Cover Up
Tag: Wool
Designer Textured Wool Jacket
Mrs Stutt at the shop showing off her superb designer textured wool jacket made up in a simple boxy cardigan jacket style. Lined in Venezia and trimmed with leather binding.
Worsted Wool Waistcoats
Vanessa again with these beautifully made worsted wool waistcoats lined in jacquard coat lining. They are made using Burda 7799 pattern. Look at those beautiful collar notches!
Denim Blue Wool Silk and Linen Shift Dress with Flounce
Daiga wearing her beautifully fitted short sleeved denim blue wool silk and linen mix shift dress with lovely seam detailing and hem flounce. She made it using Burda 6640 and lined it in Venezia.
Wool Tartan Swishy Box Pleat Ruched Skirt
Jane came to the shop wearing her fabulous Wool tartan ruched skirt. It is lined in cotton and has a pair of box pleats front and back. It has a really good Swish!
Plum and Burgundy cardigan jacket Type Tweed Cape
Amanda made this fabulous cape using British cardigan jacket type tweed. You can find Amanda on Facebook as Fascin8 Millinery and on Instagram as Amanda587.
Blue and Green Check Tweed Cape
Amanda made this fabulous cape using British Shetland style Tweed. You can find Amanda on Facebook as Fascin8 Millinery and on Instagram as Amanda587.
Purple and Green Wool Tweed Check Pencil Skirt
Carolyn sent us this picture of the skirt she made from the lovely wool tweed fabric she bought from us. The full cost including thread, zip, lining and material came to under £35. Difficult to beat that on quality and price from any department store! Next project is in the planning stage… Another trip to Totnes shortly.
Wool flared Coat with Faux Fur Collar
Emma sent in a pic of the winter coat she made – She bought the fabric AGES ago (her words- all of five months – that’s not ages in our book) as she thought it would take a while to make this coat. And it was indeed quite time consuming!
The outer is wool/polyamide melton coating, and the lining is turquoise blue acetate lining. There is some hair canvas in there too 🙂
She used a vintage 1950s pattern.
She thanks the girls at Stone Fabrics for getting the choice of fabrics right – we sent me loads of samples and Bess answered about 1000 questions she had!
She’s now deciding on her next challenge…
Here it is on the back. How cool is that?
Fuchsia Boiled Wool Waterfall Coat
Julie cheering up the drab winter at the shop in her fuchsia pink boiled wool coat. The edges are bound with fold-over binding. This coat is unlined, the boiled wool has plenty of body to it so it holds its shape nicely.
Printed Boiled Wool Circular Skirt
Lizzy with her boiled wool circular skirt. Lizzy has a paper pattern phobia and so usually just wings it. Luckily circular skirts are easier to wing than patterns so here we have a completed project and a proud owner 🙂
The boiled wool is quite stretchy so the waist came out bigger than anticipated. She has used cotton rib jersey as a yoke and then tied it in with plaited velvet ribbons to make a tail.
She then embroidered beads onto the ‘Lion’*… as you do.
*Lizzy is completely convinced there is a lion hiding in the print (hence why she beaded him). Lizzy swears she has never taken drugs.
Fawn Wool Mix Tweed Fitted Jacket
Anastasia modelling her fabulous fitted jacket made using Burdastyle magazine pattern 112b (from 3/2015). This fabric is jacket weight wool mix with cashmere soft tweed that looks super in such a well fitting little jacket.
Lined in printed polyester satin :
This jacket was made last May and Anastasia has worn it a LOT through Scotland’s not-so hot summer!
Taupe Brown Boiled Wool Long Skirt
Marlene visiting the shop in her fabulous light weight wool mix boiled wool skirt. She used her standard a-line skirt pattern but had to take it in a bit due to the stretch in the fabric. Then she finished the hem with bias binding after trying (and failing) to hand stitch the hem. It’s unlined and is a superb, versatile and easy skirt.
Hand Embroidered and Painted Wool Tweed Skirt
Bess used her 5 and 8 year old niece’s fabulous drawings as inspiration for the embellishment on this wool tweed A-Line skirt. First she used white fabric paint and then embroidered using a heavy thread and added beads and sequins. It was all done by hand as the tweed is quite a loose weave and she was concerned machine embroidery would make it too stiff (certainly the kind of embroidery Bess has the patience for!).
It is lined in Venezia lining – turned on the lining with no waistband and bound with an ottoman (heavy) bias binding. Strips of Iron on interfacing tape were used to reinforce the back of the areas where the belt loops go. The concealed zip was moved from the back seam to the side so the back could be cut on the fold also. You rarely get any shaping on the back seam so if you have enough fabric to do this (it invariably takes extra on an a-line skirt) you can without brainache.
Bess is very fickle but this is her absolute favourite skirt at the moment.
Orange Bouclé Wool Mix Knit Braced Skirt and Jacket
Holly made this tangerine orange cotton wool and viscose mix bouclé heavy knit from LG as part of a Plymouth College of Art Fashion project to make a ‘skirt’ and cape as part of her university project. The not so practical skirt has large pockets – the entire front and back panels, braces to hold it up and metal boning through the top to hold the shape! It was inspired by Cornish China Clay and they held a fashion show at the eden project to help raise money for the people and gardens charity.
It’s nuts. I want one.
Black Wool Mix Bouclé Cardigan Jacket
Tracey (in French France) made this fabulous boxy cardigan jacket using the wool and cotton Laurent Garigue bouclé knit. She quilted it by hand (as per tradition) to black Venezia lining and used lead weighted piping on the hem to make it hang nicely.
Tartan Coating Wool Mix Cape
Angie made this fabulous coating weight wool mix up into this oh so cozy cape. The edges are bound in wool-look fold-over binding (which has been mitred on the corners beautifully).
Wool Tweed Check Mini Skirt
Teal Basket Weave Tweed Coat
Chandra wearing her fabulous basket weave swingy coat made in Social Fabric with Saj. We think she has done a brilliant job with those pockets and we love the great big cover buttons 🙂
You can find lots of basket weaves HERE
Purple Paisley Wool Challis Dress
Judy from the Cloth Club wearing her lovely wool challis dress made for a family wedding. She used a Simplicity Lisette pattern and said the fabric sewed up like a dream!
Technicolour Chevron Jacket
This is Jacoba wearing her woven Italian Designer jacket, she said, “I am very pleased with it even if it is a little wide on the shoulders. I used Vogue 8933 but changed how the collar fastened at the end. It was too high for me in the original style despite my long neck so I just let the fabric go where it wanted to fold over- it seems to work and I have had huge compliments from all :-). I love the huge wooden poppers. It does lend itself to being worn solely with black – bright even by my standards!!”
This Italian Designer is a woven fabric with more stability than the knitted, it lends itself well to this type of jacket where you have no fiddly pockets, or such like.
Find more Italian Designer fabrics HERE
Tiger Stripe Boiled Wool Belted Cape
Lizzy wearing her tiger stripe boiled wool belted wool cape. Lizzy made it without a pattern (nor much of a clue about what she was doing)
Brilliant, huh?
Lined in a poly fleece and belted in with a custom made belt, this is a super cosy coat that grabs the attention of passers by.
Boiled Wool Short Swing Jacket
Nikki with her boiled wool loose swing jacket made a wool mix boiled wool and batik printed bias binding around all edges.
The boiled wool is excellent for these loose style unlined jackets as they are virtually the same either side so look nice when it swings back.
Wool Challis Animal Print Shirt
Manju wearing her beautifully made wool challis short sleeve pin-tucked animal print shirt. She has a blog, you can read all about it HERE.
Grey bird eye check worsted wool shift dress
Caroline from Munkispanner showing us her shift dress made from bird eye check worsted wool made for Riverside. Love the welt pockets!
Burgundy worsted wool mix shift dress
Caroline from Munkispanner showing us her shift dress made from burgundy worsted wool mix made for Qatar Airlines. Love the welt pockets!
Black and White Wool Coat
Carole from our Cloth club made up this fab black and white coat utilising the reverse for contrast collar, pockets and facings. This was her first attempt as a coat and proof that everyone should try it!
Pattern is Vouge V8933 which was selected for it’s simple shape and the use of snaps rather than buttons. Carole’s version is a bit larger than the original design as she wanted a big snuggly coat to wear over a chunky jumper in the winter. The fabric is #4275 and I made use of both sides. She thanks the staff who suggested 3491 as a lining and also advised her to use organza to line the front which worked really well.
Brown Wool Melton and Tweed Coat
Brown wool coat made by Lesley (Twice!)
“I thought you might like to see the before and after of my coat. The photo below is using a vintage vogue pattern which just looked so bad on that I only wore it twice. So 2 years on, not wanting to waste the the fabric and with help from Jane I have just finished the coat pictured (above) and I am over the moon with it. The second pattern is Katherine Tilton Butterick B5960.”
This is proof that it is worth persevering with a project that hasn’t gone exactly how you had anticipated.
Grey – Blue Wool Melton Jacket
Carole from our cloth club wearing her lightweight wool melton jacket using McCalls pattern M5668 which she chose due to their being no buttonholes and only the sleeves are lined. (Carole thinks she is a novice but we think she undersells herself).
Heart patches wool and cotton heavy jersey jumper
Pink and Red double-sided wool and cotton jumper with heart elbow patches. Made by Bess.
This jersey is 50:50 wool and cotton with one side (red) being wool and the other side (pink) being cotton which means you can not only choose what colour to show but also what fibre to have against your skin. It’s fab.
Fine Red Wool Dress with Giant Rickrack Trim
Bess wearing a Laurent Garigue fine red wool panelled dress with giant rickrack sewn around the neck, worn over red and white polka dot printed jersey raglan sleeved t-shirt.
The red wool comes with an organza trim down one selvedge, which Bess dutifully ignored (she did think she *might* use it on the hem, but Bess doesn’t feel comfortable in anything resembling a frill), it is possibly criminal to ignore what is essentially the wow factor of the fabric, but she has saved it and may well use it on something else in the future. The wool is fine and gorgeous – a kind of Varuna/Challis, and will be suitable to wear throughout the year.
The giant rickrack needed to be hand sewn so it would lay correctly; a slightly tedious operation (Bess likes to sew QUICKLY), but well worth it.
The dress is lined in a cotton and silk voile, so it is ever so light, but surprisingly warm.
There’s no zip-it just chucks over the head.
Fabrics and Notions:
Dress:
Red Laurent Garigue wool with silk organza pleated trim #3513,
Giant turquoise rickrack,
Fuchsia Pink Silk and Cotton voile lining. (Pattern: Bess’s own).
T-shirt:
Red polka dot viscose and elastane jersey, Pattern: Marcy Tilton for Vogue #8636 (lengthened sleeves and altered collar)
Magenta Pink and Camel Check Worsted Wool Skirt
Jane wearing her neat little check skirt with kick pleat split in the back. You can’t tell by this photo but those checks match PERFECTLY (as if Jane would not match her checks). Turned on the Venezia lining with velvet piping on the waist
Fabrics and Notions:
Magenta and camel check wool worsted #3489
Shot magenta Venezia lining
Magenta velvet piping
Pattern: McCall’s M3830
Aubergine Boiled Wool Issey Miyake Coat
Aubergine boiled wool coat with double covered buttons made by Diana. The fabric made up beautifully in the easy pattern. Just right for the cold weather!
Fabrics and Notions:
Aubergine Boiled Wool #3228
Covered buttons
Pattern: Issey Miyake for Vogue 1320
Alpaca and Wool Boucle Knit Jacket and Wool Crepe Skirt
Dolly wearing Alpaca and wool mix bouclé cardigan jacket with bluebell blue wool crepe A-Line skirt. To stabilise the loose weave of the jacket Jane mounted it on to cotton muslin before sewing. Made by Jane for Kath.
Fabrics and Notions:
Alpaca wool and acrylic cardigan jacket type tweed/knit #3197
Cotton Muslin (interlining)
Ivory silk double crepe (lining)
Blue satin bias binding (piping)
Blue lacquered coconut buttons
Bluebell wool crepe
Invisible zip
Velvet ready made piping
Venezia lining
3mm ribbons for trimming hem
Black Wool and Mohair Double Breasted Coat
Bess ready for winter wearing her superb black wool and mohair coat lined with spotty red and purple Laurent Garigue twill silk. The collar and facings are interfaced with silk organza which kept it really light.
Fabrics and Notions:
Black Wool and Mohair Coating #3329
Laurent Garigue Spotty Print Silk Twill (lining)
Silk Organza
Half Round Silver Metal Buttons
Pattern: Burda Magazine -October 2012 edition.
A-Line Wool Skirt with Ribbon Trim
Julie wearing her A-Line wool lined skirt with Velvet ribbon trim around the hem.
Fabrics and Notions:
Grey wool mix flannel
Velvet ribbon trim
Venezia Lining
Invisible Zip
Pattern: New Look 6345 (adapted)
Houndstooth Check Wool Tunic Dress
Lesley’s houndstooth check worsted wool tunic dress with large pockets, to be worn over relaxed trousers and long sleeved tops.
Fabrics and Notions:
Houndstooth worsted wool
Bias binding
Pattern: Butterick B5362 (lowered neck and large pockets added)
Boiled Wool Waterfall Unlined Jacket and Cotton Waffle Trousers
Rachel (from classes) wearing her turquoise boiled wool waterfall jacket with red wool binding, and Paddy Campbell off-white cotton waffle wide leg trousers.
Fabrics and Notions:
Jacket:
Turquoise boiled wool
Red wool fold-over binding
Trousers:
Paddy Campbell off-white cotton waffle
Zip
Knitted iron-on interfacing
Patterns:
Jacket, McCall’s 5937
Trousers, Vogue 8717
White Spot Cotton Lawn Top with Printed Red Varuna Wool Skirt
White spot cotton lawn top with printed red varuna wool skirt made by Lucinda. (The twins were made by her sister)
Fabrics and Notions:
Top:
White semi-sheer spot cotton lawn
Skirt:
Red printed varuna wool
Red venezia lining
Invisible zip
Red fold-over petersham binding
Tweed Cardigan Jacket Style Jacket and Tweed Check Skirt
A rare photo of Jane taken in London wearing her mixed fibre tweed jacket quilted in the traditional cardigan jacket manner with added chain weight and fringe trimmings. Turquoise and chartreuse wool tweed skirt with kick pleat and pink lining (made by Bess).
Fabrics and Notions:
Jacket:
Mixed fibre cardigan jacket type tweed
Printed silk satin lining
Silk organza (just the selvedge, used for staying the edges and hem)
Acrylic fringe trim
Chain
Double cover buttons
Skirt:
Turquoise and chartreuse big check wool tweed
Pink Venezia lining
Pink velvet piping
Invisible zip
Spotty Reversible Grosgrain and Wool Coat with Zero Print Skirt
Bess wearing reversible coat made years and years ago using grosgrain polkadot and green Laurent Garigue worsted wool.
Also wearing a long a-line skirt using a Donna Karan Vogue pattern.
Fabrics and Notions:
Coat:
Polka dot printed grosgrain viscose and cotton
Laurent Garigue green worsted wool
Cover buttons (wired together so as to be double sided)
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Skirt:
Red zero print stretch cotton drill
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Turquoise satin piping
Invisible zip
Turquoise narrow petersham (belt loops)
Black 25mm cotton petersham (tie)
Boiled Wool with Flock Rose Design Coat
Jacoba wearing boiled wool coat with flock rose design.
Fabrics and Notions:
Aubergine flock rose patterned boiled wool
Viscose satin lining
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Tulip period buttons
Viscose Elastane Red Polka Dot T-Shirt and Silk Wool Tweed Pinafore Dress
Jessie wearing her red viscose and elastane polka dot t-shirt made by Bess, and Bess wearing her wool and silk tweed pinafore dress with Birdy pockets and circle jersey inserts.
(They were trying to move faster than the camera flash- clearly not fast enough)
Fabrics and Notions:
Jessie wears:
Red polka dot printed viscose elastane jersey
Lightweight knitted iron-on interfacing
Stay tape
Reinforced iron-on stay tape
Bess wears:
Wool and silk tweed pinafore dress
Red polka dot viscose and elastane jersey (pockets and inserts)
Medium weight knitted iron-on interfacing
That T-shirt again, in slight slower motion:
Silk and Wool Tweed Pinafore Dress with Jersey Inserts
Dress made for Bess’s graduation made out of charcoal silk and wool lightweight English tweed with charcoal jersey back and red spotty jersey circle inserts and pockets.
Aubergine Boiled Wool Swing Coat and Beret
Kitcat wearing aubergine boiled wool swing coat with daisy buttons and matching beret.
Fabrics and Notions:
Aubergine boiled wool
Daisy buttons
Viscose satin lining
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Pattern: Simplicity 2745
Cotton Drill Twister Skirt and Wool Mesh Hoody with Ears
Megan wears chartreuse cotton drill A-line skirt with a spiral zip inserted, worn with a grey wool mesh hoody top with ears, designed by Bess
Fabrics and Notions:
Skirt:
Charteuse cotton drill
White continuouse zipping
Viscose acetate spot print lining (Inside zip)
Black venezia lining
Invisible zip
Bias binding
Black fold-over grosgrain binding
Top:
Wool stretch mesh
Stretch semi-sheer turquoise lycra binding
Patterns: Bess’s own
Modelled below by Bronte showing what happens when you undo the zip
Wool Tweed Zippy Dress No2
Kyra modelling the wool tweed zippy dress remake designed by Bess
Fabrics and Notions:
Laurent Garigue double sided wool tweed in charcoal and ivory
Big spot poly satin
Red continuous zipping with extra pullers
Black fold-over grosgrain binding
Self made wide bias binding
Iron-on reinforced stay tape
Iron-on stay tape
Pattern: Bess’s own
Monster Glove Felted Jersey Cardigan
Kyra modelling the felted jersey cardigan designed by Bess with integral glove puppets.
Fabrics and Notions:
Turquoise wool and polyamide felted jersey
Red viscose elastane jersey (binding and waist yoke lining)
Cover buttons
Wool wadding (collar interlining)
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Angora Wool Mix Jumper and Zippy Dogtooth Wool Skirt
Megan (spinning) and Bronte (triptych) modelling angora and wool mix jumper with red viscose jersey circle insert and monster gloves, and charcoal grey dogtooth worsted wool with zipped panels revealing printed silk habotai inserts.
Fabrics and Notions:
Jumper:
Wool and angora stripe rib jersey
Red viscose and elastane jersey (circle insert, covered buttons and glove linings)
Wool wadding (Inside circle insert)
Covered buttons
Bias binding cut from jersey
Stay tape
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Skirt:
Charcoal 80% Wool 20% Poly dogtooth check brushed worsted wool
Digitally printed silk habotai
Red continuous zipping
Black grosgrain fold-over binding
Invisible zip
Backing button
Bias binding
Iron-on stabilising tape
Heavy Jersey Sailor top and Pleated Wool and Silk Skirt
Clair wearing heavy jersey sailor top and pleated wool and silk skirt.
Fabrics and notions:
Heavy wool jersey
White ribbon
Stay tape
Black silk/wool worsted (permanently pleated)
Medium weight knitted interfacing
Venezia lining
Gingham ribbon
Invisible zip
Winter White Boiled Wool Cardigan Jacket
Clair wearing boxy winter white boiled wool cardigan jacket with black trim, and guipure lace skirt
Fabrics and Notions:
Jacket:
Winter white boiled wool
Black fold over acrylic/wool binding
Skirt:
Black guipure lace
Ivory Venezia
Invisible zip
Bias binding and piping
Mixed Fibre Tweed Skirt and Mohair Wool Coat
Jacoba in her mixed fibre tweed skirt and mohair and wool coat.
Fabrics and Notions:
Suit: Mixed fibres tweed
Venezia lining
Invisible zip
Pattern: Butterick 4461
Coat: Wool mohair coating
Viscose satin lining
buttons
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Quilted Hooded Jacket with Worsted Wool and Jersey Draped Skirt
Becky modelling Lucinda’s quilted cotton hooded jacket with laser cut leaf embellishments, and worsted wool shaped yoke with jersey draped skirt (made using the Julian Roberts sub-cutting method)
Fabrics and Notions:
Skirt:
Marble print viscose and elastane jersey
Chocolate brown English worsted wool
Red viscose and elastane jersey
Invisible zip
Jacket:
Dyed calico
Laser cut leaves from ultrasuade, jersey and calico
Blue viscose (lining)
Wadding
Cotton bias binding
T-shirt:
Viscose elastane jersey
Ladybird Spot Boiled Wool Skirt Suit
Clair wearing red and black boiled wool ladybird spot skirt suit.
Fabrics and Notions:
Printed Boiled Wool
Elastic
Stretch binding
Buttons
Green Wool Boucle Skirt Suit
Skirt suit made by Carole using green wool bouclé from Scotland.
Fabrics and Notions
Green wool bouclé
Self cover buttons
Venezia lining
Invisible zip
Viscose iron-on interfacing
Edge tape
Pattern: McCall’s 5335
Wool-mix Jersey with Flower Detail Skirt
Judith wearing wool mix double jersey skirt with a clever flower detail
Fabrics and Notions:
Wool mix double jersey
Knitted medium weight interfacing
Invisible zip
Issey Miyake Coat
Poppy returning to the shop in her wonderful Issey Miyake designed alpaca wool tweed coat.
Fabrics and Notions:
Alpaca wool tweed
Pattern: Vogue (Issey Miyake)
This pattern has been going for years, it is cut in classic Issey fashion in that you don’t know what on earth is going on until it is all put together. It’s like witchcraft. Remember when choosing a coat like this that takes so much fabric (about four and a half metres, with hardly any wastage) to pick something light- unless you want to build up muscles!
Black Cashmere Pleated Pinafore Dress
Clair sporting her black cashmere wool pleated pinafore dress.
Fabrics and Notions:
Black 100% Cashmere wool
Silk Velvet (belt and bow)
Velvet piping
Puple Venezia lining
Medium weight knitted iron-on interfacing
Pattern: Burda 8072
Grey Harris Tweed Check Skirt
Clair in her grey and chartreuse check tweed frill skirt
Fabrics and Notions:
Grey line check tweed
Venezia lining
Velvet piping
Pattern: Simplicity 3881
Ladybird Spot Boiled Wool Suit
Kitcat the Ladybird in boiled wool skirt and jacket with patch pockets. (Made by Jane)
Fabrics and Notions:
Wool mix printed boiled wool
Stretch binding
Elastic
buttons
