My second change was that I put the fold-back cuff pieces on the bias, partly to avoid having to pattern match and partly because I thought it would look more interesting. I left off the welt pockets - my reasons were 5% aesthetics, 10% fabric limitations and 85% not wanting to sew welt pockets.
Rear view, with extremely dodgy under sleeve pattern matchingĭesign-wise, I made a two tiny changes from the pattern as written. Of course, I'd LIKE a hem that looked like it finished evenly on a black line all the way round the jacket, but I couldn't have it AND have the centre front/side-to-side match. Something was going to be screwy no matter how I cut it out, so I decided to focus on the things that were most important to me, as far as matching the print and pattern were concerned. I could find literally no way to do that with this fabric/pattern combination. So, you might have noticed that the hem doesn't follow the lines on the fabric. The other fabric/print problem is the hem. With the fabric I had I really couldn't do any better so, eh, whatever, I'll take the ostrich approach: I can't see the rear view of the sleeves, so it's not really a problem.
I probably needed another 0.5m of fabric, maybe even more, to get any kind of match. However, the under sleeve pattern piece was very problematic. I had just about enough fabric to pattern match to some extent, and some parts of my pattern matching are good: the center front, the side seams below the dart, and the side-to-side view across the upper sleeve, front and back bodice. Side view on Flossie - as you can see, I did make some attempt to match across the sleeve/body Since those parts of the jacket aren't really visible, I didn't feel like this was a problem at all. Luckily, I had a similar weight fabric in plain white in stash that I could easily substitute in. I had enough for the main pieces but not the front and back facings or even the collar facing. Actually, let me amend that: I didn't have enough fabric for this jacket.
I just BARELY had enough fabric for this pattern. I bought this piece of black and white stretch cotton sateen as a remnant and it was (a) very cheap, and (b) not very big - only just about 1.5m and fairly narrow (about 130cm wide). My version of Burda 02-2018-112 in black and white cotton sateen I had no particular pattern in mind, so I was quite happy to shuffle my plans around and use this pattern. However, when my copy of the magazine arrived, what actually leapt out of the pages at me was Burda 02-2018-112, a short boxy jacket with piping details:īurda 02-2018-112 Jacket and technical drawing (images from )Īlthough I hadn't thought to make it until later in the year, I already had a piece of fabric earmarked for a short jacket.
Originally, when all I had seen were the previews, I had more than half decided to make the latest Burda variation on a theme of wacky top (Burda 02-2018-107) for the February edition of my personal magazine challenge.
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