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A tailored Jacket - Vogue 8701

10/4/2013

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Its always exciting to learn something new, and something I've never tried before is making a tailored jacket. Me being me, I didn't want to follow the ready to wear methods given in most pattern directions - nope, what I wanted to do was a fully hand tailored jacket with pad stitched canvas interlining, a proper roll on the collar etc etc.
My ultimate aim is a Prince Charlie Jacket for my husband to wear with a kilt to formal events, but that involves expensive wool fabric, so I wanted to make something for myself first to try out the techniques.
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The pattern I chose was Vogue 8701 - isn't it hideous?! I honestly don't know what they were thinking when they decided that a bold green check was the best way to show off this design.
Anyway, it wasn't the pattern company's picture that made me pick this one, it was this version reviewed here
I love the shape, especially with the bottom front curved instead of pointed.
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Inspiration
My references for this project were 'Tailoring' from the Singer Reference library and 'The Victorian Tailor'  by Jason Maclochlainn. I also attended a day class at the Barry Rogers School of Sewing, but unfortunately I can't give it a recommendation - it was useful to see the stitches and techniques in person, but all 3 students in the class finished 2 hours early - while I understand that people will progress at radically different speeds depending on experience, it was very disappointing that the tutor didn't have anything else to show us to fill the rest of the time we'd paid for - setting is a sleeve would've been good.
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