From Groceries to Dinner Date - Part IV

Still Thinking and Making Samples

Well, I'm still really happy with the new pattern choice, Vogue 8620.  We'll see how that works out when I make the muslin, but I think it will be what I want.  Since the one side will be denim and cotton casual fabrics, now the question is, how do I deal with the lining or second side?  I've got some options, but I'm not sure exactly what I want to do.  Here they are:

1. Line the jacket with dark blue.  Not exciting at all, but gets the job done.
2. Line the jacket with red.  I'm not 100% sure about this because I'm not sure how much of the inside of the jacket you can see at the hem - there's a shaped hem on this jacket with the back being longer than the front.  
3. Make a reversible jacket with more luxurious red fabrics on the reverse side.  I've got plenty of red velvet and silk.  I'm not sure what I'd do for embellishment, but it would need *something*, plus the quilting.
4. Make a reversible jacket with more luxurious blue fabrics on the reverse side.  I've also got plenty of navy velvet and silk, plus a whole lot of satin.  I've got some embellishment ideas, but I'm not 100% set on those yet.

The main concern with a second side is the weight and thickness and drape, actually the lack of drape.  I've got already got quilted denim going on here, and that isn't the most drapey fabric in the world.  Add to that the fact that the more quilting you put into a fabric, the stiff it gets, and I've got a problem with a double sided, heavily quilted garment.  I've got a good size sample of  quilted denim that I'm going to wash and dry a few times over the next couple of days (I've got to time it with all the rest of the household laundry so as not to be wasteful!) and see if that helps the drape any.  If I've got a quilted satin or even a silk duiponi on the reverse side, the final product will really be stiff.  I could do a washed quilted dupioni, I have a sample of that I could throw in the wash, too, just to see how it turns out.  I don't want something super stiff or thick;  I want something comfortable and wearable.  There is a balance to be struck here, and because this garment is certainly going to be more wearable, I need to think this through beyond just the embellishments.

As a side note, I have been making more embellishment samples:

Which brings me to another concern - if this is supposed to be more wearable, then shouldn't the fabrics be machine washer and dryer friendly, too?  Hmm. . . . . that's another thing to think about isn't it?  Some of those finer fabrics for the reverse side might not be so washable or able to tolerate all the washing.  That brings me back around to what do to about the lining!  I don't want anything boring, but I don't want anything competing with the outside, like a loud print. I'll have to think about what to do.

If you've read this far, what do you think?

Tomorrow I'll show you the navy skirt;  I finished it today.

Parting Shot:  Making Dinner.  My son loves to cook and yesterday he asked if he could make dinner tonight.  So far he's doing ok, we'll see how it turns out in a little bit.  He doesn't do too bad for his age; he knows how to cook quite a few things from scratch.