Fall palette challenge: green cropped jacket

The project that started me off was actually planned before I took this challenge on, but I'm working with it anyway.  It's a simple cropped green jacket, which I made to wear over the very yellow bridesmaid dress that I wore to my dear friends Catharine and Alex's wedding last weekend.  I'll admit, the yellow worried me.  It was a lot of yellow to pull out of the box when the dress arrived, and it's not the best colour on me in general.  So I plotted to make this jacket, which would break up the yellow for at least part of the day, and keep me warmer during the reception.  This ended up being the best part of the plan, as the  yellow wasn't nearly as scary as I feared it would be when put in the context of the entire wedding party.  Plus, I got to wear pretty awesome shoes.

I don't have good close up pictures of it right now, but I only just got my internet back so I'm kind of on an updating spree.  So here's what I have on my phone from the reception!

From Instant Upload

Decorating the happy couple's car: a time honoured tradition.

That's how it looked in the full context of the outfit, and I was pretty happy with it.  It's a wool blend, lined with a cotton that has a dotted weave to it.  It's pretty subtle; I'll have to get some good photos of it.  I'm using more of the same cotton in the Macaron dress I have planned, so you'll get a closer look.  I'm pretty happy with the outcome, overall.  There was only one thing that didn't happen on time.

From 10/4/11

Classy.

I'll be honest, I knew in the back of my head it wasn't done.  A normal person would have taken out the straight pins before wearing it in public.  But we were running from the church to the reception, and I had to get things out of there as quickly as possible, and we were all pretty chilly from standing outside taking photos.  California or no, it gets chilly in October when you're standing around in a strapless dress.  So as a little girl at the wedding complimented my jacket, I said, "Thank you!  I made it myself... you can tell because it isn't finished, and I have pins where my buttons should be."

Thankfully, two of the groom's friends were also stitchers, and they applauded my choice to rock the straight pins.

Overall, I'm a fan.  It's a really easy jacket to make, and while I'd enjoy an industrial press to really flatten those collar seams, it's still a pretty clean look.  And a great length for that dress, which I shall deconstruct and use to pattern another dress in some fabric that is NOT polyester satin.  But that's another project for another day.  And another month.  Right now, I have a costume to finish before New York Comic Con, and then I can dive into the Clover sewalong for Colette.  I'm making them in a lovely charcoal pinstripe, so here's hoping for the best!