This jacket took 4 days to make under the blood moon in September, hence the name Blood moon jacket.
Using Vogue 7764 and some ‘wine’ corduroy from Minerva Crafts with a few neatly placed metal buttons, this jacket was a warm layer when we traveled in October.
She’s lovely to wear and this is the third time I’ve made this pattern with some final tweaks.
This cord from Minerva Crafts is quite thick and firm but easy to manage especially when sewing in the sleeves. If fitted sleeves make you lose your cool, this cord will keep you humming.
If you’ve yet to make a lined jacket, the fun is finding a great lining to go with the look you want. I bought this lining from ‘Clear It’ in Melbourne.
I uuhmed and aahed about adding shoulder pad where the epaulets were but I added them in for a firmer fit and a more military look.
The jacket detailing above were made on day 1.
I so enjoyed correctly putting these pocket on the front. I really did – true ‘sewing geek’ material.
This is my work in progress on the second day/night before I left my sewing room to sleep off this detailed work.
Day 3 took a bit more guts as I had to sew in the lining.
Below is the finished jacket with the sleeves sewn in.
Here’s the finished jacket first worn at Port Macquarie in October. I was fortunate enough to go to SewBusyLizzie Sewport weekend in October.
The timing to make this jacket was also perfect as I’d entered this jacket in Pattern Review’s Sewing Bee challenge. I made it through Rounds 1, 2 and 3 but didn’t get through to the final Round.
On our first morning in New York, it was just cool enough to wear this jacket in Central Park.
Below is the reworked back lining pieces as I got some good sewing advice at McCalls HQ.
The back lining was bothering me so I asked the experts for their advice about making the lining ‘sit properly’ as this pattern doesn’t have lining pieces. I ended up following their advice and sewed the back centre waist seam of the lining to the jacket centre waist seam.
The other thing I changed was my belt buckle.
I forgot to order a belt buckle from Minerva so I picked one up from New York’s textiles area. The original buckle was a ‘stash’ buckle’.
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