Repair!

After a year of wear my keys have made hole in my Lee BIB, so it's time for a repair.

I use a 12.75 oz lefthand Kurabo fabric with a golden selvage. 

I cut away the weft threads from the hole and fold the edges.

Since the BIB is a righthand twill and the repair fabric is a unwashed lefthand twill it might be some nice effects after I wash the BIB again.

Done!

Wear Pics Part 2

This is the latest pair of jeans that I did three month ago. 

You can read about them on DENIMHUNTERS 

This is how they look after one rinse and three month of wear.

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Wear Pics Part 1

All right here we go!

This is the first jacket that I've ever made, read about it HERE. After one rinse and five month of wear it look's like this.

 

First of all I would like to apologize for my absent here. Due to the internship and now the summer break I haven't had any chance to sew anything so there's been no need of posting. 

I've seen that there's a lot of people still visiting so therefore I will dedicate this summer break to post wearing pics on some of the things that I've done. 

But until then here's a pic of a one year old Lee bib after it's first wash. 

The BIB is Done!

Finally I got the time for this last post of the Bib. 

Last time I almost put all the pieces together on the front and the back, the only thing that is left is the straps and putting the back and the from pieces together. So I start with the inner leg seam, I've realized that it's much better to do the overlock after you put the pieces together. 

Making the really long inner leg stitch.

Attaching a tool pocket. I actually almost forgot to make this so a smart thing would have been to attach it before the inner leg seam. The tool pocket will be strengthen with the outer leg seam.  

The outer leg seam.

And the bib is done. I didn't have any pic's on my phone from the making of the strap...sorry.

That's it on the bib. 

The BIB project part two

Today I did my first day on my internship at Indigofera, nice to finally getting started and I think that I'm going to have a really good time there. But more on the internship later on. Now over to the BIB that I actually manage to finalize before my trip to Stockholm. You can see a pic on the final result on our Facebook page.

Since nether I ore my "teacher" had done something like this before I had to guess my self to a lot of stuff.  A thing I did different from the pants is that I started by putting both the back pieces together, and I did that because I didn't have a yoke that I could measure the pocket placing from. But I attached a "yoke cinch" instead. And from that I can measure out where the placing of my back pockets should be.

Free handing the arcuate.

Adding the back pockets and also locking the tool hanger in the pocket stitch.

I'm still practicing on the rounded pockets and with thees one's I'm kinda pleased.

Attaching the back with a folded seam. Now with hindsight I would also have had the straps cut out in the same pattern piece as the back. And this is something that I would have figured out if I had done a toil... But that's whats happened when you don't have enough time.

Now over to the front. Here is the watch pocket.

Attaching the front pocket linings and locking them with a double stitch.

Adding the fly.

The BIB front is quite similar to the pants except for the outer seams on the pockets, here you need to have a little longer pockets signs so that you can fold it over the pocket lining due to the openings that will be on the sides. 

And now to the actual BIB.

Placing the waistband on to the BIB and do a stitch and turn.

One more stitch and turn to place it on the leg pieces and then lock it with a stitch all the way around.

And this is how the front looks on the inside, again with the same hickory striped lining as I've had on my latest projects.

I'll stop here, next time I'm going to present the final result.