This project is going well and I am just about finished. I made the trial version in the pink fleece and it turned out very nicely. The fit is good, too, though the neckline is a bit wider than I intended. It's not enough to send me back to the drawing board, it's just not perfect :)
I'm going to use this to line the cape. Even though the sequins on the butterflies might be a little troublesome as a lining, I think it will be better than the wool melton to have against your skin.
Maybe it's not quite accurate to call it a lining, since the cape is actually reversible and can be turned "inside out" to have the butterflies on the outside and the melton on the inside. Not a bad situation as long as one is wearing long sleeves.
Speaking of the melton, I also finished the shell of the cape, too. I wanted to put some kind of decoration on the hem, but when I measured the length of all the edges, I discovered I didn't have any ribbon that would work. It's 16 3/4 feet. That's alot of ribbon. Besides, I didn't have 16 3/4 feet of ribbon of any kind, let alone something that would match this color. It wasn't until later that I realized it would have been impossible to stitch a wide ribbon on a hem that has this much curve anyway. Whew. Saved by living 35 minutes from the nearest fabric store.
Let me say that I don't have an embroidery machine. I never wanted one. Until now. Instead of the ribbon, I used the decorative stitches on my Kenmore 19233 to stitch the embroidery on these edges. It took three passes to make this motif. 3 times 16 3/4 feet is 50 feet. It took me 2 1/2 hours to stitch 50 feet of decorative stitches.
I'm tired. I think I'll finish this cape later.
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