5050  SHORT JACKET

 

YOU NEED: wool/semiwool or crepe-satin for evening variant; sateen for trimming; fusing; 3 buttons.

 

NB! Before sewing, print paper patterns and lay them out according to the linen width (from 90 to 150 cm) to find out how much material you need (do not forget about double and symmetric details).

 

CUTTING:

Fabric:

1. Middle front part – 2 pieces

2. Side upper front part – 2 pieces

3. Side lower front part – 2 pieces

4. Middle back part – 2 pieces

5. Side back part – 2 pieces

6. Back neckline facing – 1 piece

7. Inner collar – 1 piece

8. Outer collar – 1 piece

9. Upper sleeve – 2 pieces

10. Lower sleeve – 2 pieces

11. Sacking – 2 pieces

12. Front band – 2 pieces

13. Inner cuff – 2 pieces

14. Outer cuff – 2 pieces

 

Trimming:

1. Outer collar – 1 piece

2. Outer cuff – 2 pieces

3. Pocket – 4 pieces

 

Fusing:

1. Front band – 2 pieces

2. Back neckline facing – 1 piece

3. Inner collar – 1 piece

4. Inner cuff – 2 pieces

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

 

1. Stitch front relieves.

 

2. Cut slit “frame” pockets. Lay two pocket facings on front part right sides together; pin along pocket entrance marking and stitch along marked lines (lengthwise edges of facings must coincide with middle line of pocket marking). Cut front part between stitches, diagonally at stitch ends. Do not cut through facing! Press seam allowances apart. Turn facings to wrong side through slit rounding seam allowances, then tack. Topstitch along facing joining seams. Turn small triangle at slit front end into wrong side and stitch strictly to facings between upper stitch ends and lower stitch ends. Join facing’s bendings with velvet seam. Stitch lining sacking on wrong side to allowances of seams joining lower facing, stitch fabric sacking to allowances of seam joining upper facing. Press sackings downward, cut sackings, adjust them and stitch them together.

 

3. Stitch back relieves as well as side/shoulder seams. When stitching seams, do not catch sackings’ side edges.

 

4. Stitch sleeve seams. Stitch cuff facings to outer cuff. Stitch cuffs’ side seams, overstitch outer cuff with inner one, turn details right side out, then press. Lay cuffs’ right side on sleeves’ wrong side. Stitch cuff lower edge to sleeve hem. Turn the cuff right side out.

 

5. Stitch sleeves in easing them along sleeve caps. Sew 4 cm width of the fusing to joining seam allowance at sleeve caps.

 

6. Stitch the collar and the facing. Overstitch the collar along outer contour and tack it into the neckline tacking open edges together.

 

7. Lay front bands on front parts right sides together and topstitch them on front edgings and lapels up to the point of stitching the collar in. Slash seam allowances near this point. Stitch back neckline to front bands’ upper ends. Lay collar’s open edges between the jacket and front bands with facing (inner collar lays on the jacket.) Stitch outer collar to front bands’/facings’ neckline. Stitch inner collar into jacket neckline. Make slashes into roundings. Press seam allowances apart. Fold front bands and facing into wrong side, press edges. Sew collar joining seam’s allowances at back neckline (wrong side.)

 

8. Fold front bands frontward. Fold hem allowances into wrong side up to front edgings, then sew. Fold front bands into wrong side again, sew to hem allowance.

 

9. Turn in the jacket. Sew front bands to jacket hem.

 

10. Sew shoulder pads to sleeve joining seams’ allowances and to shoulder seams’ allowances.

 

11. Make 3 buttonholes into right front edging. Sew buttons.