Oh We Like Sheep

[tealin]

I would like to take a moment to say

I LOVE WOOL.

I have long known it's the best thing for keeping out damp cold, it's incredibly durable, and stain-resistant, fairly wrinkle-resistant as well (yet creasable!) and all-around excellent.

Today I splurged and got some heavyweight wool suiting for the frock coat part of my Halloween costume (which I plan on wearing every winter, not just for one day). It is luxurious. Compared to the odd mystery polyester blend I was working with last year, and to the lining I was trying the pattern on last week, it's an absolute dream to pin the pattern to, cut, pin together, and I expect it'll be magnificent to sew and finish as well.

THANK YOU, SHEEP! Keep up the good work!

21 Sept, 11:27 PM
Not only is it marvelous to sew, it's also incredibly forgiving. O, the rapture of wool.

Comments

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

So what is your costume going to be? Or is it a supreeeese?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It's not a surpreeese, I just doubt most anyone would have any idea ... I'm being Steerpike in his Assistant-to-Secretary-Barquentine costume from the 2000 BBC production of Gormenghast. (...modifying the coat a little to make it less specifically cool and more all-winter-long awesome and versatile...)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Visual aide:

  

Sorry they're rather blurry and small ... It's practically the only scene in the movie that has lighting enough to be able to see the waiscoat and jacket at all rather than them just showing up as a black blob.