Rectangles and more Rectangles ....Collar Details make a difference

 


Colors are nice, but the details make it better

Sad until I pulled the collar out and over...and always the scarves.


This was a piece of fabric no quite big enough to make a whole jacket..... I folded it over so that I could see on the fold a big enough cut for the back of a jacket, but not necessarily long enough for my liking.   The second piece was too narrow to be the two fronts, so I added a long rectangle of a fabric from my stash to give the width I wanted across the front.  The next piece left was two rectangles I could use for sleeves.  Again, they needed length to make me happy to the banding piece added width to the front rectangles, and length to the bottom and then length to the two sleeves.   I did no curvature to the armholes, I just centered the sleeve rectangles to the shoulder seams and sewn on , just folded tthem in half and made a seam down the middle and all the way down to the side and bottom.

Detail in the banding and the collar

No pattern, just puzzle piece making, with rectangles.

Notice how much better it looks with the large drapie collar on the sweater.  This could be pulled over the top edge and bring all the colors together.  I keep this collar piece on my wall of pieces, and it is very comfy and I think it adds something to be able to blouse a collar over the top of a jacket.

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