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Made By A Fabricista: When Winter Strikes You Make a Fur Vest and Hat

I know it’s been super cold over most of the US recently and even South Florida got a cold front a few weeks go.  It got so cold it snowed several inches in Orlando and Northern Florida! It was during the winter freeze that I was looking for fabric for my next make and came across this Black 100% Polyester Double Faced Faux Fur that is 64W.  This fabric is so soft and luxurious to touch. More on the fabric later though, because I have some tips and tricks I learned along the way. I knew I wanted to make a vest so I started looking through my pattern stash and I came across McCall’s M7695. This is a Palmer/Pletsch pattern that uses the Tissue Fitting Method.  I honestly didn’t use the method.  I just looked at the measurements and decided on making the size 22 because I wanted the vest to be oversized.  This pattern comes with 4 different views.  The view I chose to make was View C with a minor adjustment. I chose to omit using the zipper and just followed ...