I am still sewing pretty heavily so do have some things to add
This is a jacket I made last month based on the same pattern as the one I made out of curtains last year. This new version was made from some striped drill I bought last year with the intention of making a pair of striped Levi style jeans. When it arrived I discovered the colours weren't as described . The listing had it as 2 shades of blue and a yellow. It arrived as Black, mid grey and beige as well as white which was the only thing that came as listed.
Since it wasn't going to be as multicoloured as I had envisioned I thought I would make it into a frockcoat instead.
It wound up being put on the backburner while I went around making a load of jeans and shirts instead. I think it has turned out ok, not sure I could have done it much better at the moment. The one thing I've been a bit self conscious about is the facing/contrast which came from a piece of what appears to be late 60s curtaining.When I got it it was made up into some form of bag of some kind, possibly a sleeping bag though I'm not 100% sure.
I picked that up from the Curiosity Shop, the local charity shop that I was getting a lot of fabric from last year. At the time I wasn't really thinking what it would become so it sat around unused for several months. In the interim I came across some brocade which I think looks great but was shedding colour every time I washed it. Otherwise the facing here would have been red floral brocade. I think this alternative, which only occurred to me after that seemed unusable, looks pretty good but I'm still not sure.
I also made the lining from a curtain I bought from the same shop.
I'm wearing the jacket in the 2 bookending photos here with a Missouri Riverman shirt I made in some curtaining material I bought from a reduced section in Hickey's, the one shop chain locally that sells fabric. The design is some form of vine with pods and large burgundy flowers . I really like the cartoony aspect, it looks like something from a Hanna Barbera cartoon and I think of it as the Mr Farmer shirt after The Seeds song.
The other photo was taken at a different point and features me wearing a waxed cotton shirt in a style I took from a pattern for a renaissance era top. It has been heavily reduced in the amount of fabric that has been used. Probably by at least the amount that you would need to make another straight modern shirt from.
What you don't see in this photo is that the shirt features a drop yoke which means that construction is pretty different to a normal shirt. I'm not sure if that shows any better in the shots with me in the waistcoat and the pair of jeans that I made last year and have talked about elsewhere. I will examine this shirt further at another point. I really like the design and will be making other shirts in it. I think there will be a paisley lawn fabric shirt coming in it over the next couple of weeks.
The trousers in the photos at the top are another pair cut from the model that I've used for all of my jeans up to now. This pair is done in a viscose tartan that I'm not 100% sure of the blend for. It's definitely got some polyester content but I'm not sure how much.
I would like to find out more about working with viscose since it seems to be the one fabric that you can get tartan in that is suitable for making jeans. I would probably prefer it if I could get a heavy cotton with tartan pattern but so far haven't found anything of that kind. Not sure if there is a reason for that. I know that plaid is traditionally made from wool, but I would have thought that the design would be more widespread. I have come across brushed cotton in tartan but it isn't heavy enough for trousers. there will be more on that later since I made a shirt in it. As shown below, this is another dropped yoke one, this time with a 2 button cuff a detail I think I will probably incorporate in future having stumbled on it by accident during the cutting of this version. The jeans here are in the one form of striped drill that I could find at the time. Seems to be a striped drill drought happening for some inexplicable reason.
