Yeti

 It's been a long time since I've posted.  But I wanted to show my personal version of Sasquatch.  Yes, it DOES exist!  I started this last winter, maybe February?  The lining is all done, and the outside is techically done.  But it just isn't working for me.  The shoulders are much to much.  In the photos below the left shoulder is partially darted to take it in some, but not only cannot I not really finish the dart without a lot of hand-tugging stitching, it's then too bulky to wear.  So what to do? I'm thinking of removing the sleeves completely and turning it into a vest?  Or would it still be too much?  What if I made the back out of a heavy/stable knit?  No.... that would mess with the whole collar thing - forget that. 

 

 

Particulars:  this is from Burda, October (I think) 2010.  I went to G Street armed with a $50 worth of Living Social coupons and a desire for a faux fur jacket.  Somewhere along the journey I lost my way.  I wanted a low pile, soft, brown and a plan for a much more recent issue of Burda pattern.  And came home with timber wolf.  I decided to take one more look through my Burda collection before I started and saw this:

 So a new plan was born.  The very helpful lady at G Street gave me a number of pointers.  All of which I used and none of which resulted in this critter shedding in my sewing room.  At her suggestion, I eliminated the side seams and cut the whole body as one piece.  I marked the seam lines with a Sharpie - red was the only color that I could see the markings for, so red it was.  And, apparently faux fur backing is probably the ONLY thing on Earth that Sharpie isn't permenent on, so this resulted in giving me red hands when I work with this.  Not a good thing with working with something that already resembles a butchered animal.  I also used a razor blade to cut - that way I was able to cut just the backing without cutting the actual "fur" (please note that no live animals, other than me, were harmed in this endeavor).  I don't remember if it was G Street lady or Burda that said NOT to trim fur from the allowances but to comb them out of the seam and into the body of the garment, this works great and hides the seam completely.  So far, so good.  But then the sleeves went in - well one of them.  And it was (pun intended) a real bear to insert.  Burda, in their design wisdom, included 2 LARGE darts in the sleeve caps.  Um, yeah.  Well that makes too much bulk to fit under my sewing machine foot so that part was done by hand.  The right one, anyway.  Then I got tired of messing with it and the weather got warm and it hung in a closet all spring and summer.  I pulled out last week, prompted by a Stitcher's Guild thread about sewing winter coats.  Slid it on to see if it really was as bad as I remembered.  Not only is it as bad, I'd forgotten about only pinning in the left sleeve.  This left me with a large, deap, thin scratch down my left arm.  Yeti strikes back!  Last week I repeated the exhausting drama of inserting sleeve #2.  And took some photos. 

Bleck.  I really hate to just toss this - MONSTROUSITY - but I can't and won't wear this THING.  If anyone (is still reading this blog and) has an idea of how to rescue it, I'm all ears.  Apparently the only anatomical item missing from this critter.