1896 Ensemble

I saw this jacket posted in my Ageless Patterns group on Facebook and decided I MUST make it. It's Ageless #1173, 1896 Braided Jacket.

I will be doing this skirt to go along with it - Ageless #2217, 1894 Brown Godet Skirt.

The original is made out of a wool or heavy cotton fabric, and I decided to use cotton velveteen. I found a Kaufman fabric I love but they seem to no longer make the blue color I fell in love with, but I found some gorgeous teal cotton velveteen on Etsy that I ordered. 

I also bought a 144-yard spool of black soutache to use for the trim. I'll mimic the scroll work on the jacket on the skirt. The original appears to use some fancy soutache and I looked at picot braid but I don't like the look of it, and I'm not even sure I like it on the jacket, so regular soutache it will be! I've never worked with that kind of trimming and I'm sure it will require many, many hours of hand sewing.

Now I have to wait for my velveteen to arrive from England, and my patterns.