Hey guys it's Haley at Seamwork and today I want to take you behind the
scenes and give you a little look at the fabric I chose for the samples for the
October issue. So the Chip jacket is this really great moto style knit jacket. It
has kind of a boxy, oversized fit so you don't need a ton of stretch to your knit
fabric to make this work. So for that reason it's gonna be really great for
things like a sweatshirt fleece or a boiled wool which are two fabrics I'm
going to show you today. For my first sample here we have a sweatshirt fleece.
For this fabric we actually used the fabric wrong side out just cuz the color
looked so much richer and prettier. Feel free to have fun and make designer choices with
your fabric like we did here. This fabric works really well because it's nice and
stable, it's heavy weight, it stands up to the weight of the zippers and the
hardware super well and for that reason I think sweatshirt fleece is going to be
a really great candidate for this project and luckily it's super easily
accessible. And then we have the bonus. What differentiates the bonus is this
paneled sleeve, it's a little bit more fitted, and it as this really cool
zipper detail with the guard so the zipper isn't irritating your skin at all.
It is a little bit more of a fitted sleeve but you can still use the same considerations when you're picking
fabric for this. Sweatshirt fleece would also work really well, we used a boiled
wool here. So what is a boiled wool? A boiled wool is a knit fabric that goes through a
process called felling. It basically is like agitated with a solution so that it
kind of felts up. It's not really felt but it is felted knit and because it's
made from knit fabric it has a little bit of stretch to it making it really
great for Chip. Let's move on to the Dexter pants. The Dexter pants have a bit
of negative ease through the waist and through the hip and for that reason
you're gonna want to seek fabric that has a lot of stretch to it and I think
in the pattern we recommend 50% or more and I think that's a great
recommendation. So for the Dexter pants our first sample we chose this really,
you guys, I'm so... I love this fabric. It's a really great stretchy ponte, it's from
Robert Kaufman. It's newish to me, I've just started
seeing it pop up in stores. It's called the Arietta, not sure
if I'm pronouncing that right Ponte de Roma. I really like it because lots of
ponties have that kind of like synthetic sheen to it. This does not, it does have
some synthetic fiber content to it but it has this really nice matte appearance.
I think it complements these pants so great. It comes in a bunch of different
colors, we obviously used the black, and it just, you can see here it's like
super duper stretchy. It's awesome, super awesome for Dexter. Even though you have
the zipper to help you get in and out of these pants, you still want that
stretchiness so that you can move because you don't want to like be stick-
straight when you're standing in your pants. And then we have, I wanted to show
something a little bit softer than the Ponte when I was selecting the sample
fabric so I decided to go with a French terry I think this is like a super cozy,
slightly lighter weight option. This fabric here is a bamboo French terry and
it still has that spandex so it's gonna have good recovery definitely something
to keep in mind when you're choosing your knit fabric for Dexter. Stretch is
great but you also want it to bounce back to its original shape so make sure
you're looking for something with spandex or lycra so it has that bounce
factor. And those are the samples for the
October issue of Seamwork. I hope you found this super helpful and I can't
wait to see the fabric that you choose! See you next time!