I have this beautiful vintage sheepskin coat. It is so big & heavy .It must be very old, the shoulder pads were made out of horse hair & were hand stitched! The sleeves are way too big but I love the cuff detail. I want to make it wearable, I’m thinking bomber jacket shape? I have never worked with sheepskin before . I just don’t want to ruin it. Any ideas & advice would be most welcome 🙂

Hello! Thank you for inviting me to your wonderful community. I got very inspired by your class and actually had some leftover fabric from an Upcycled skirt that I made this summer and figured the Twilly was the perfect way to use up the rest of the fabric so that now I can proudly say that this was a true zero waste project! The skirt is an upcycled pair of jeans, which I had used the bottom part to enlarge a dress for a client (my day job is designing bespoke clothing and re/designing my clients loved pieces). I had the idea to use the top part as a yoke for a gathered skirt. The bottom is cotton poplin which I used the entire width to make each panel (front & back) so that it would be zero waste. That said I did have about 10 inches of fabric left over which is what I used to make the Twilly. Kate, I love your idea of using tassels as a way to weigh down the Twilly. I wanted to find a way to do the same thing with my scarf, but since I don’t have any tassels, I thought it could be fun to replicate the frill from the skirt as a bottom panel for the Twilly. Because I didn’t have very much fabric and also, because I thought it would be fun to try making one by hand instead of using a sewing machine, I ripped two strips of 2 inch fabric, which I attached together. I then attached a wider gathered rectangle to the bottom of the strips. All the seams are felled so that the scarf looks identical on both sides (bottom of the twilly is the selvedge). I quite like how the raw edge looks, although I’d probably want to add a whip stitch along the length just so that it doesn’t fray when I wash it. I still had a few strips of leftover fabric, so I decided to turn them into a little rosette which I can pin over the bow or use as a closure on a coat. Shout out to Betsabeh Rais, because I loved your use of a vintage brooch. You inspired me to use one of mine as a centre for the rosette. Such a fun project to make!

There's still some finishing touches to add but I love the twilly, I just need to work out how to style it past using it as a cumberbund (which I love). I need to take the skirt in at the waist, but love the potential. I bought the dress secondhand about a year ago, I adored the print but the dress turned up with a weird unexpected ballon shape, the neck and arms were too tight, and not the length I'd thought it was. A twilly seems like a small project but the idea of the twilly means you have to think about the bigger project which is brilliant.

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Hi! I tried joining zoom @ 4:05 and am left in the waiting room… 😔… it’s now 4:29 … 😞 still waiting to be let in & join the zoom