Pretty Pattie

Skirt with lining

Finished jacket with wrinkly sleeves

Oh Pattie! How much stress she initiated me. But in the end it turned out very well!

I slash this pattern 5 weeks before, and other than a shatter to make The bliss of Mrs Blossom dress, I?ve been stitching little morsels of this coat, making improvements on the fit and fiddling round with ?tailoring techniques? (which in the end were kind of useless), and having tiny hissy aligns every time I tried it on

But in the end I am so joyous with it I don?t even care about its remaining imperfections!

Blouse from ASOS, Patent very dark footwear from ASOS, Handbag - Op Shop find

So let?s proceed back to the start ? I liked an early sixties style mini-skirt suit. certain thing for work that was in a slashe fabric and pleasant slash

I used a navy polka spot publish from Spoonflower on Organic cotton fabric sateen. Sateen is perhaps not the best fabric for tailoring as it tends to hold creases but is easily ironed out. And I did have to strengthen some of the borders in twill strip to avert future extending.

I used Lilac bemsilk lining for the insides

I utilised 2 patterns from Burda - Mini evade 08/2012 #135 and Jorinde coat 4112

The mini evade was easy and since I've made it a couple of times before and it was done in 2 hours. It aligns magnificently and is the neatest coating I've ever finished!

The jacket although was another issue. I didn't assess the hours I expended on it so I can?t explain in that capability how much I worked on the coat. Luckily the fabric was rather good and can deal with being handled with a couple of times and there was a lot of unpicking and restitching particularly with the sleeves.
The bodice was too large-scale so I tapered that down, but at first I didn't slender down the sleeves as well and that created the first sleeve topic. So I took them off and slimmed them down a little. After that I was nearly finished and was close to finishing the coating, but the sleeves still weren't right. I actually just liked to complete the silly thing, but my inward voice was screaming ?just do the bloody thing properly!? so I unpicked it afresh, taken the flannel underscoring from the sleeves and took them in spectacularly and made sure they fit before sewing them in for the last time. 

The genuine instructions for the coat were not that great so I used the tailoring directions from my stitching publication. The publication had suggested flannel underscoring the bodice and sleeves which worked out nicely for the bodice, but as cited it was not perfect for the sleeves.

The top half of the jacket also has been interfaced ? this is to keep the shoulders and top of the back tidy and smooth. contemplating I took out the shoulder pads, the interfacing is doing a pleasant sufficient job of keeping the bears smooth.