This is a gilet I recently have finished. It has been made from a light grey, fine waled corduroy. That's to say: the two front pieces. The back part is a grey striped woolen fabric.
As I said in a former post, gilets are easy to make, once you have a pattern that produces a nice fitting item.
I made this one with pockets that in french are named passepoilé. I am not sure what this is called in english, probably a welt pocket.
The idea is to stitch two small stripes of fabric on the front side and to fold these inward along an incision that is cut in the front part of the garment. The left and right parts of that incision end in small triangles, which are also folded inside (to be stitched through, later on)
This is how it looks like from the front side.
The pockets themselves are fixed by stitching through the upper and lower lines of the folded stripes, including the upper and lower parts of the pocket. Easily said, harder done, but certainly fun to do.
The next picture shows inner- and outside pinned together. The two top parts and the left and right parts are not to be stitched in this phase, because they later on have to be sewn to the adjacent parts of the rear section of the garment.
Having attached rear and front parts, the gilet wll be almost finished. Just some button holes, and buttons, and here you are: a nice gilet:
Good idea to have it combined with the light blue denim shirt I made earlier.
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