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Wool Milano Cape

Apologies for slightly blurry photos… Using my front camera on my phone is a bit blurry, oh well!

This latest make is the Milano cape by Papercut Patterns.  It’s only availble as a paper pattern, unfortunately.  The pattern is in 3 sizes, and the main difference between sizes is the length. I cut the smallest size.

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The fabric is some wool coat fabric I bought years ago in Melbourne.  It’s quite thick, and has a nice heft and warmth to it.IMG_0455

However, as shown, it also picks up every particle of white dust in the vicinity.  Hopefully as the fabric wears and smooths out that will happen less?  A bit doubtful. IMG_0372

This pattern features a lovely Peter Pan collar with no undercollar.  It got a bit cumbersome and thick sewing the collar area on my little machine!IMG_0371

This pattern also has single welt pockets.  These are a bit scary to do, and were kind of hard to place evenly.  I also found that the welt pattern pieces were not the same length as the mark on the front pieces.  They were significantly different, not just a little, and it took a lot of checking and measuring to get it right myself.  IMG_0458

The pocket bags are some other wool suiting I had, and to prevent it from fraying I used a fusible hemming tape to glue some bias binding over the raw edges.  I could have just finished the edges before sewing them on but I didn’t think of it at the time!fullsizeoutput_5bf2

Who knows if I’ll wear this really.  I’m not a cape kind of person, yet.  I’d like to be one of those women who just swoosh around in a cape and look so cool, but so far I’m not quite convinced!fullsizeoutput_5bf4fullsizeoutput_5bf5fullsizeoutput_5bf6

It is very swishy, though 🙂

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