Last Friday, I posted about starting my Rigel Bomber jacket and on Sunday I posted about the welt pockets.
I asked Meg from Mood for advice on how to line this jacket and she referred me to her blog post and suggested to flatline the jacket. That was a perfect suggestion and I used this Mood Fabrics' blue and black silk print
Here is the inside of the jacket.
I had purchased bias tape to finish the seams. After some experimenting and taking into consideration this Papercut Pattern has 1 cm (3/8") seam allowances, I went with a 3-thread serged seam finish.
For the ribbing portions of this jacket, I purchased Antique Dark Blue Solid Ribbing on Mood Fabrics' Black Friday sale. It arrived this past Tuesday, perfect timing for my jacket.
This ribbing has a vintage feel and I love how it looks with the wool denim but it doesn't have lycra and not much recovery. With this is mind, I had to make some modifications to the pattern pieces for this ribbing. I cut all the pieces a smaller and this helped to compensate for the lack of recovery.
I still wasn't happy with the bottom of the jacket, it needed some weight and the ribbing was a bit loose. On the way home from work, I had that ah-ha moment and remembered Meg's use of elastic in the bottom ribbing of her bomber jacket.
I stitched a seam in the middle of my bottom band and has two casings for elastic and then I inserted two pieces of elastic as shown below.
Here is the bottom band with the elastic fully inserted
One last detail was the facing, I used my trusty clean finish technique
One more thing, I ordered the zipper for this jacket from Zipper Shipper and they will cut it to the size you need.
I asked Meg from Mood for advice on how to line this jacket and she referred me to her blog post and suggested to flatline the jacket. That was a perfect suggestion and I used this Mood Fabrics' blue and black silk print
Here is the inside of the jacket.
I had purchased bias tape to finish the seams. After some experimenting and taking into consideration this Papercut Pattern has 1 cm (3/8") seam allowances, I went with a 3-thread serged seam finish.
For the ribbing portions of this jacket, I purchased Antique Dark Blue Solid Ribbing on Mood Fabrics' Black Friday sale. It arrived this past Tuesday, perfect timing for my jacket.
This ribbing has a vintage feel and I love how it looks with the wool denim but it doesn't have lycra and not much recovery. With this is mind, I had to make some modifications to the pattern pieces for this ribbing. I cut all the pieces a smaller and this helped to compensate for the lack of recovery.
I still wasn't happy with the bottom of the jacket, it needed some weight and the ribbing was a bit loose. On the way home from work, I had that ah-ha moment and remembered Meg's use of elastic in the bottom ribbing of her bomber jacket.
I stitched a seam in the middle of my bottom band and has two casings for elastic and then I inserted two pieces of elastic as shown below.
Here is the bottom band with the elastic fully inserted
One last detail was the facing, I used my trusty clean finish technique
One more thing, I ordered the zipper for this jacket from Zipper Shipper and they will cut it to the size you need.
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Love the ribbing detail! Can't wait to see the finished jacket
ReplyDeleteVery interesting construction details.
ReplyDeleteOoh, what a great idea to add elastic to the ribbing! So smart! I can't wait to see the finished jacket!!!!!
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