Thank you! My website is horribly out of date, a bit over a year. The program I used for it only runs on Windows, and I've got a Mac. My husband's been dragging his heels on putting a partition on my computer so I can run Windows and update, hence the Facebook link.
I know the original coats used soutache braid, and the cut ends of that stuff is a nightmare. I'm having to secure the ends well before cutting it.
You just used plain black cord, like the narrow kind? That would have taken forever!! Using 1/8" and 1/16" soutache is taking long enough, and that's wider than most cord! I'm hoping you used a wider cord than I'm thinking of, and if you mentioned using shoelaces when you ran out, I'm suspecting that's what you did. The thought of using cord like I used for the two solid "lines" around the edge of the collar gives me a headache, and I actually love hand-work!
That you did with the motifs actually looks like something instead of a semi-abstract, and all I can think of it a weed, like a dandelion, for the original, which I wouldn't care for at all if my daughter didn't love them so much. I love so much that yours is so clearly a flower, and also keeps pretty faithful to the original. I looked at yours, and immediately thought I must have looked at the original wrong, so I went to my filed, and nope, yours is different and just plain better.
I wish you'd posted pics of the cuffs and a clearer one of the back instead of just the top down. I'd love to see more!
What did you do for the buttons? The originals were covered in soutache, and I've got a couple ideas for that, though my client is fine with plain buttons. And where did you find your wool? Unless it's the lighting, it looks a little lighter than the wool I got, and I with what I got was a little lighter.
Also SF Bay represent! I'm from the Bay and miss it so much my heart aches. Before leaving the area, I was in the unloved child of San Mateo County, Redwood Shores, that patch of land Redwood City and San Carlos keep trying to force on each other (unless it's changed, it's technically Redwood City, and what's so funny about that is you can't get from the Redwood Shores part to RWC-proper without driving through San Carlos. It's a city divided! For a while I was in San Jose, but just barely, on Norwalk when the complex over there was an Archstone, and that was, hands down, my favorite apartment. I miss the seagulls and clam shower bowls in the city, strolling down University in Palo Alto stopping at Pluto's for their onion rings and amazing sauce for them pondering why any street needs so many rug shops and joking that they must be fronts for something not exactly legal... Also Los Altos has Thai Silks. I used to go there so often that the ladies all knew my resale number without needing to look it up (get a business license and you get 25% off purchases over $50 plus no tax). Now I'm sitting here all sentimental and am even more homesick than I've already been feeling lately.