Cascade Cardi

 

Finished Cascade Cardi

     I made this jacket for myself.  I bought the pattern at the ASG Conference in NYC this past summer.  I also bought some beautiful wool knit fabric at the conference.  When I went to cut out the pattern, I found that I had been shorted fabric.  I was so mad!  It was expensive and now it was useless.  I did find a tweed knit in my stash that I wound up using.

Pattern

     While I was making the jacket, I tried on the piece before sewing on the sleeves as suggested in the pattern.  I did trim off about 1/4-1/2" from the shoulder.  The construction of the garment went well.  I really like Pamela's Patterns as the instructions are easy to follow.

Shoulder adjustment 

     The pattern called for shoulder pads, just small ones that gave the jacket a little more structure.  I had some that I had bought and I covered with the fabric.  They were very flat so I used the iron and a ham pressing tool to shape them.

Shoulder pad

Shaping the shoulder pad

Shaped pad in front, flat pad in the back

     I do like how the cardi turned out but I am still disappointed that I wasn't able to use the original fabric as it was a blue color that would have gone well with jeans.  

Fabric details