Finally finished about three weeks ago, when I just stuffed away after 74 hours of work. Towards the end I was not enjoying it because I was getting fed up of it. Anything else I would probably have moved on and gone back later. I just shoved in a plastic bag without even pressing it.
I cheated on the buttonholes, I didn't have the right thread and I had spent so much on it I did not want to spend anymore (perfection is overrated to me). A machine one would have been too perfect so I did another way, on the reverse of the fabric, so you can just see it, which I like better. I ran out of lining because of the way I had cut it in oblongs, so I got another, which did not match but I wasn't in the mood for searching through emails to see where it had come from.
The toile for the sleeves was too wide and too long so I reduced but left the length, which was a good job, from being level with my ring they are now about an inch above my wrist, which I think is how it was meant to be. Most of it was just slow, steady and tedious as the only machine part was the outside seams. I'm pleased with how it turned out but not in the market for making another. Kitty has made an appearance, they can always tell when you are 'doing' something.
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