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Waterfall Jacket pre-orders

Orange Wool Jacket

Who remembers this jacket, that I made last August? I’d very much like to make some more, but in order to buy the fabric I’ll need to take pre-orders.

Don’t worry – your jacket doesn’t have to be orange! Though it does work best with wool or wool-blend loosely woven fabrics, like this one. The front, neck and bottom edges are not hemmed, they’re slightly frayed to show the nature of the loose weave. (Don’t worry – they’re also stitched along the edges, so they won’t unravel.) The sleeves are trimmed with a small cuff.

These jackets are pretty much free size, as there are no shoulder seams to fit into, and they don’t fasten across the front.

Orange Wool Jacket

Fabric Land suiting or t-shirting
If you’d like a jacket made from any of the suiting fabrics on this page, the cost will be £65
A plain cotton jersey version would cost £55
Or you could have a patterned one from this page, or this one, for £60
(The lower part of the sleeves can be made in a contrast colour, if you like.)

Organic Herringbone or Linen
If you fancy some heavy organic herringbone weave (scroll all the way down!), that’ll be £140
Organic herringbone or linen with flowers or swallows print will be £165

Organic cotton jersey
A lovely soft t-shirt style cardigan in a wide choice of colours can be yours for £120

Verity's Harris Tweed Jacket

Harris Tweed
For a really sumptuous jacket, why not go for genuine Harris Tweed? It’ll cost £235, and it will come complete with a Harris Tweed Orb label, to confirm its authenticity. It’s available in a stunning range of colours, from very traditional heritage weaves to incredibly bright modern shades.

If you’d like to choose your own fabric, I can advise you on what would be suitable, how much you’d need to buy, and how much the resulting jacket would cost.

UK Shipping will cost an extra £11, as I’ll send them out by Special Delivery.

If you’d like to pre-order a jacket, all you have to do is let me know which fabric you’d like to go for, and I’ll put together a custom Etsy listing for you.

You can either pay the full amount up front, or you can pay a 50% deposit. Again, let me know which, and I’ll create the Etsy listing for the correct amount. This will allow me to order the fabric and make a start! You’ll need to allow up to four weeks from the date of your payment, as I need time to order and receive the fabric and actually make the jacket!

You can contact me by leaving a comment below, sending an email to claire@eternalmagpie.com, or by sending me a message on Facebook or Twitter.

I really like making these jackets, and my orange one has been very popular (orange-ness notwithstanding!), but unfortunately I currently lack the funds for buying the fabric to make more that I can pop into the Etsy shop readymade. Hopefully these pre-order options will work out!

The hat blocks are here!

Felt hats

Aren’t they beautiful? My very own multi block cloche set from Guy Morse-Brown. You may have already seen pictures of them on Facebook – I’ve been saving up for these all year, and was very excited about their arrival! All the sections are interchangeable, which means that eventually I can buy more crowns and brims to make different styles of hat. But I think cloches make an excellent everyday sort of hat, and I want to make hats that people actually wear, not stick in a cupboard and only bring out for weddings. So, cloche hats it is!

Felt hats

The blocks are covered in cling film, to prevent dye transfer from the felt, and to prevent the stiffener that’s impregnated into the fabric from sticking to the wood. The floppy shapes on the table are called capelines – which my spell checker keeps insisting is two words, grrr! They’re made from wool, and I bought them at Broadlands about four years ago. About time I put them to good use!

Felt hats

Some people use steam, but I just used hot water to soften the felt enough to pull it down over the block. The red band is a blocking spring, which holds the felt in place at the crown so that you can keep pulling and stretching it over the brim. It’s hard work – this kind of felt is very stiff.

Felt hats

This is the brim, held in place by fifty special blocking pins. Once the felt is completely dry, I can cut away the excess, trim the brim, add an inside band, and then decorate it. I think this one’s going to be mine!

Felt hats

And here’s the second block, which has more of a sweeping shape to the brim. The back of the hat is on the right. You wear this hat slightly pushed towards the back of your head, so you can see out from under the brim. Speaking of the brim…  I might need to work on this one a bit more. I think this is where steam will come in handy, as I had real trouble blocking the brim to fit the concave shape of the block. I don’t think the string was tight enough in the groove to make a really neat edge to the brim, but I won’t find out until I’ve taken the hat off the block. The great thing about working with felt like this is that it doesn’t matter if I’ve mucked it up at the stage – I can simply soak the capeline in hot water, or steam the brim, and start again. Brilliant!

Wool felt colours

And because I am nothing if not enthusiastic, I’ve made a colour chart of the range of felts I can order from to make more hats! (Oh, number 20, Regal, is out of stock at the moment, so you can’t have that one.)

What I’d like to do is offer a discount to the first six people who pre-order a hat from me. This gives six people a hat at a fantastic bargain price (yet to be worked out, but likely around £40 + shipping), and gives me the funds up front to buy things like a big roll of brim wire and a bottle of felt stiffener that I can’t buy in single-hat quantities. I realise that nobody’s going to buy a hat based on two pictures of work very much in progress, but I figure that if you know this is happening, you can start to think about colours and trims for when the time comes!