Thank you! I know, tweeds are so gorgeous and so unique. I always have a fear of messing up when I'm working with such a unique fabric. When the time is right to finally make them, you'll know it. 🥰🧥🎨🪡🧵
Love this. Wish I could see the jacket already sewn up from the inside, before the lining. Especially the center front interested in the inside front panel you use and how much bulk it creates .❤
Thanks! I've seen jackets where they use silk for the whole of the lining, and the front of the jacket tends to sag. It also doesn't age well. When you use tweed for the centre front lining panels (and silk for all the rest of the lining) it just gives it that extra little bit of structure that the jacket needs to sit right and look good. I wouldn't use a coating weight tweed to make a small jacket, it would be too bulky, but most tweeds are jacket weight, and they are fine. (When buying the fabric it will say if it's suitable for a bulky coat or a sleek jacket.)
There are a few draughting mistakes in this sewing pattern, I think that's why they discontinued it but once you fix them it's quite good. It's more like a vintage (boxy) Chanel jacket. The V7975 is more sleek like a Karl Lagerfeld era one. Boxy jackets work better for pattern-matching.
I’m curious. It appears that you sew the princes seams on the netting but not the tweed. Then it looks like you place the netting onto the tweed, and cut out the tweed in one piece . Am I correct? I love this jacket and would like to try it on a tweed I’ve been holding onto for ten or more years. Love your video channel!
Thank you! Yes, this method is called draping. You can cut both the backing fabric and the tweed all at the sameand just sew them together but this way gives you perfect pattern matching across and around the whole jacket.
