What about the pinstriped jeans jacket?

What about? It is finished, yes!

It began like this:

This is the backside. It has four parts. In dutch we would call the upper one a "pas", in english probably a "pass" (in this model it is not a yoke). There is a lower part in the middle, that needs no comment.. The two side pieces provide the fitting, that's why they wrinkle when laying flat.

And here is the front side., shown from the interior:

The front of the jacket has an upper and a lower part. Two front pockets have been adjusted on the seam between upper and lower part. The pockets have been made from the fabric that will also be used for the lining, a beautifil dark blue soft shining fabric, with small round motifs.

Next, after connecting front and backside, and after setting the sleeves and the collar, you get this:

It is going to look like a jacket...

By fixing the collar, the lining has been fixed too, another construct of front, backside and sleeves.

So, just a waist belt, cuffs, buttons, buttonholes, and there you are.

The pinstriped jeans jacket is finished.

The story is quickly told. But, making such a jacket takes time. I guess it will take me some 20 - 30 hours to complete it, depending upon unexpected setbacks I encounter.

Et voila....

Here is another parade of pins......Lining and fabric of the jacket under construction are pinned together.....the collar is hidden between the two parts.....


It's like cooking. You combine three or four ingredients in the correct quantities, put that combination in the oven, and after some time, just take it out.....et voila....


So, combine fabric, collar and lining together, stitch carefully, no heating, no waiting, just turn it around ....

et voila...

This is what you get, assumed elements have been well arranged in advance.


Just like when cooking, I am always pleased when the operation is successful again.


This project, making a pinstriped jeans jacket, is to be continued.


Still have to add a waist belt and cuffs.  The closure of the jacket will be with buttonholes and jeans buttons.

Can't wait to see the final result.

Setting a sleeve into a jacket

Recently I have been making a jacket from a half woolen fabric with pinstripes. It will be kind of a jeans jacket and it probably is not very usual to have a pinstriped jeans jacket.

Well, I did like the pinstriped fabric. However, I do not like pinstriped classic suites. So I decided to give the jeans jacket model a try, and just await what would be the result.

The picture shows a mass of pins, meant to fix the sleeve into the jacket. That is my way of setting sleeves.

People in the clothing industry would not use such a lot of pins. They fix beginning, end and top of the sleeve and adjust the parts with their fingers, giving "ease" while stitching.  

There is a scholastic way of setting a sleeve into a jacket:  handsewing a thread in the upper part, pulling this thread slightly to "ease" the upper part, and then stitching the sleeve to the front/back part. 

Maybe I would use this trick when doing a classic outfit, but now I was doing something non-classic.

Well, all these pins may look like a mess, but when, after stitching, you turn the inside outwards, the result will be like this:

Nice, eh?

The pinstripes of the front and of the back are not exactly "in line". I have no idea if this would be a must. I have seen pictures of jackets from men's fashion shops with the same appearance, so I do not feel too bad about this.

And if anybody has something to say about this, I always can put forward this is kind of an artistic freedom, ha ha...

In a future post I will show the finished jacket.  I need some time to complete it