Trenchcoat Trendy

My confidence in my sewing took a massive hit when I made that red jacket cuz it looked super frumpy and I hated adding the lining, so I thought to myself “Hey why not try out a simpler jacket with no lining?”… I cut out the pieces but when I was doing the corresponding parts… it turned out this jacket had over 20 pieces including jacket flaps and belt loops and working pockets.

 

To make matters worse I began cutting out fabric pieces before I realised I didn’t have the right amount of fabric so I was super conservative about the fabric. I ended up running out of fabric and needed to use an almost, but not quite, matching scrap fabric for his collar and belt loops.

 

But hey it took me only 3 hours to assemble this jacket and there was tons of topstitching, accidentally stitching the wrong pieces together and lots of fabric pressing to properly hem the fiddly pieces.

 

And the fit is perfect on my Ace, with just enough room for a long sleeve shirt underneath.

 

I’ve ordered some scrapbooking buttons to accent his coat but otherwise I’m proud of how well this turned out.

 

Done