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Blue Chanel Jacket
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Blue Chanel Jacket – Part 3: Sewing

This is the third part of my journey creating my Chanel Jacket. The first part outlined how I gathered all the supplies and created a well fitting toile (ie. test garment in calico). In the second part I cut out and prepared my fabric for sewing. In this post I’ll Read more

By Carmen Grantham, 5 yearsFebruary 7, 2021 ago
Blue Chanel Jacket - Part 2 - Cutting Out
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Blue Chanel Jacket – Part 2: Cutting Out

This is the second part of my journey creating a Chanel Jacket. The first part outlined how I gathered all the supplies and created a well fitting toile (ie. test garment in calico). In this post I’ll discuss the cutting out process, which was quite different to any other pattern Read more

By Carmen Grantham, 5 yearsJanuary 22, 2021 ago
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Blue Chanel Jacket – Part 1: Supplies and Toile

The construction of my Chanel Jacket has been quite a journey. I wrote previously in Why I decided to Make a Chanel Jacket for my reasonings of undertaking such a daunting task. SUMMARY: The Australian Sewing Guild were running a sew-along and I thought a Chanel Jacket would look great Read more

By Carmen Grantham, 5 yearsJanuary 15, 2021 ago
Vogue 8804 Chanel Jacket
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Why I decided to Make a Chanel Jacket

At the end of 2019 there was an announcement that the Australian Sewing Guild was running a Couture Chanel Cardigan Sew-a-long. My first reaction was no, why would I bother? I don’t want to wear head to toe tweed. I live in jeans. This is how I envisaged a Chanel Read more

By Carmen Grantham, 6 yearsFebruary 24, 2020 ago
Carmen Grantham wearing blue jacket with green bush in background.

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