Just in time for our cold weather.
In the past I’ve only quilted fabric for French style jackets. Machine quilting isn’t my super power. This budget polycotton fabric is quilted so that was the kicker that made me decide to work with this fabric.

If you’re in the Northern hemisphere and are sweltering, bookmark this review for when fall comes around.
If you’re still reading this review here’s what I did.

I enjoy using Pauline Alice patterns and in 2019 when this pattern was released I thought it would be handy ‘one day’. As I was able to snaffle this fabric for my Minerva Brand Ambassador project the hunt was on for a good lining.
In my stash I could chose a conservative grey or as you can see, I opted for this very royal purple colour.

The Ayora jacket is designed to be worn indoors for cool weather. That’s what I’m facing right now.
I chose the size 42 and made just 1 adjustment.
There are no size seams so the only adjustment I made was a slight forward shoulder adjustment. This was fantastic because the jacket sits nicely on my shoulders.
This jacket is boxy so I didn’t want to try and make the back more shaped for this jacket.

We tend to wear black in the Winter and after I made the black pants recently, it was only fitting that I could pair these pants with this warm indoor jacket.
The sleeve hems are really lovely and when you search for how others have made this jacket, they’ve gone and sewn a reversible jacket with awesome hems and trims.
For myself, I decided to do a jacket that is as black as possible and then sew on big bulging black buttons.

Now I have to submit this note to the teacher:
‘Sir, the sewing machine ate my buttonholes.
Your sincerely, disappointed sewist.’
My workhorse Janome just threw in the towel and decided to not sew any type of buttonhole. It even decided to not zigzag so I could do manual buttonholes.
So for now, this jacket is wearable and so finished until I can get my sewing machine serviced.

How long did this jacket take to sew? Probably 12 hours in total with cutting the fabric layers.
It’s a fiddly sew but really useful and handy to have in your wardrobe.
In a future jacket, I’ll make the pocket lower but that’s all I would do to this pattern.
Oh and hopefully I’ll have my sewing machine working by then.

The day after I finished posting about this jacket, I had a good night’s sleep and tried sewing the buttonholes again with lots of success.