Second Part of a Three Piece Sew: The Jacket

It was onto the second part of this three piece outfit, the jacket. I could do either the jacket or the “cardigan” view, but decided on the jacket. it had pocket welts and seemed more of a challenge. I figure if nothing else it would be good practice.

I had this leftover black synthetic linen that I had used for a previous sew. See previous blog post (Read The Instructions, Do It Your Way Anyways). If you’re ever curious how to best search for old posts. Each post has “tags”. Let’s say you’re looking for a post with me in it, you would scroll to the bottom of the home page, if you’re on your phone, or look to the right on the home page if you’re on the computer. You will see a list of “tags”. Click on whatever you’re looking for, and all of the posts with that tag will appear.

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I laid out the pattern and started cutting. Look at that weird detailed cutting in the arm pit area. This would prove to be my downfall! HA!

Pinning the sides onto the front piece. It was getting weird.

This is what the instructions said to do. I was following, but I was still unsure how this would turn out.

Sewing together the pocket welts. As you might be able to tell from the mess in front of my sewing machine, this fabric frayed a lot, and was linty.

Got the pocket welts on, then had the task of attaching the back to the shoulders, sides and then in the complicated armpit area.

Now this is where the construction pictures stop. They stop because I had to seam rip out the under arm sleeve seam, and try to sew it back in the right way. It was horrible and frustrating. This fabric does not seam rip easily, and trying to get the under sleeve seams to line up was a nightmare.

As you might have figured out from previous posts that my life right now is very hectic, and I’m trying to carry on as best I can. Sometimes doing the things you would normally do is the best thing to do.

I got the sleeves sewn. The jacket was hemmed and finished, but I still had to do a photo shoot. I quickly threw one together while Michelle was on her lunch break. I had just gotten off work myself, and threw on some clothes and took some pictures.

I wanted to show that the jacket could be worn as an individual piece, and not just as one piece in the trio. Here’s how Michelle and I styled the jacket, in a rush, on a lunch break, and after I’d spent hours with kindergartners.

The green shirt is something I had sewn for myself a long time ago when first learning to sew clothes. I think it works with the jacket and casual capri pants.

This shoot was fast and simple, but also so difficult. I’m worn out! But such is life, isn’t it? Sometimes you have all the time in the world for hobbies and trivial things. Sometimes bigger and more important things happen and the balance between the two is indeed just that, a balance. A difficult one at that!

I am determined though, to hold steady, sew a little slower maybe, but stay the course! Sewing makes me happy and is the creative outlet that I need. SO,

as for me, onto the next!