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Posted on: 9/21/16 8:10 AM ET
I love the Shearling coat from this month's Burda (10/2016, #123). I am having trouble finding reasonable prices (say $20/yard or less) suede backed sherpa (the fake stuff). My question is can i use a faux suede and a sherpa back to back to make do? It's not my first choice but I really want to make this coat



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Posted on: 9/21/16 10:40 AM ET
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Cute style. Look up Minky Bonded Cuddle Sherpa fabric. It would look right, but be less structured than the real thing. At least with your idea you can interline with thinsulate, and add structure. Also available are Sherpa fleece throws

. Made one of these for a neighbor several years ago and did what you are considering, she loved it and still wears it. Just have a vacuum standing by in the sewing space. Serged most of it.
  
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Posted on: 9/21/16 12:19 PM ET
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Just have a vacuum standing by in the sewing space. Serged most of it.

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I made a faux shearling jacket a couple of years ago and I swear I still find bits of the fleece every time I vacuum! (Which may, of course, say something about how often I vacuum - but in any case, the stuff is really very messy.)

Nevertheless, I'm tempted by this pattern too.
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Posted on: 9/21/16 12:37 PM ET
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Sounds like flat lining to me: pretty good description here: http://thedreamstress.com/2013/10/tutorial-how-to-sew-flat-lining/
  
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Posted on: 9/22/16 3:49 AM ET
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I'm so impressed by the links you post. I have a question - how do you organise them? I find useful posts and links (like your seam slippage link) but then lose them. I'd be grateful if you could advise. TIA.
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Posted on: 9/22/16 11:14 AM ET
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I'm sorry... I can't really help there, as they're in my head (and google). I do know some likely spots to find things... American Efird has some of the best technical thread and seam information around, so that's where I usually seek something like "seam defect Efird". Kathleen Fasanella's blog, fashion-incubator.com, has lots of fascinating information and demos (I think it's one of the most intellectually generous sewing sites around), so tend to use it a lot. Sometimes I don't recall the name of the post there, but I remember the photos well enough that just doing a google search for fashion-incubator.com and then clicking on "images" brings up a photo I remember.

The flat lining article I found was from my memory of a Threads article, which turns out to be behind a paywall now, so I picked a couple of other articles (from a search for "flat lining" and "fabric" together) to look at quickly.

I do have a bunch of old bookmarks for sites I found with good stuff over the years, but the links are often now broken. One of these years, maybe this winter when it's too dreary to do anything else, I ought to get them reorganized.

But I'm always happy to try to find a link for someone. I've got some pretty good google-fu, so it usually doesn't take long.
  
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Posted on: 9/22/16 11:19 AM ET
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PS: In the years before google (I've been around since the web consisted of a map and clock at Xerox PARC and a couple of other things), I used to keep a list of links for sites I found useful just as a text file, and the links copied to that under terms I'd remember, rather like the index for a book.

I haven't found the browser bookmark capability nearly as useful as that old list with several hundred entries on it, alas.
  
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Posted on: 9/22/16 1:09 PM ET
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I use Evernote, a note-storing app that has a web clipper. If I see something on the web I save it to a notebook and create tags. The whole article is saved. Its search engine is pretty powerful. My notes are accessible from my desktop, the web, and my phone.

I'm not very happy with Evernote right now because it significantly raised its rates for paid users. But if you aren't planning on using it for much you might be able to get by with the free version.

You might also try using One Note or Google Drive. They have different strengths and weakness from Evernote. Google Drive is free.
  
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Posted on: 9/22/16 1:14 PM ET
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A synonymous term is "underlining." I was taught to do it with hand basting. Some people baste only in the seam allowances. I baste at 2" intervals everywhere unless the fabric is delicate.

I baste large rectangles of fabric and underlining together and then trace the pattern onto the basted pieces and cut them out.
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Posted on: 9/22/16 2:22 PM ET
I kind of do that to make kids robes. I make two of the robes and then insert the inside so that the wrong sides are together. I have finished by binding and by turning under both outside seam allowances to make each one's edge folded under (with wrong side of each seam allowance to wrong side of fashion fabric and then matched and edge stitched.
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