Beginnings of a Jacket Made the Susan Khalje Way

A couple days ago I began the process of making a jacket for myself.  I signed up for an online sewing class called The Couture Dress by Susan Khalje, who is renowned in the world of couture sewing.  This class is offered at www.craftsy.com, if interested.  I have signed up for several sewing classes through Craftsy and am I  really enjoying them.

I've been sewing for decades, but no formal training other than my mother, wonderful Home Economics teachers in school and years of experience sewing.  I have so much at my disposal now for training with online resources as well as books.

The process of making this jacket is detailed and time consuming; but in the end I feel it will be well worth it!

I'll try to post information along the way.  I altered my pattern to hopefully fit better using the pivot and slide method.  I recommend Nancy Zieman's Pattern Fitting with Confidence if unfamiliar with this way of altering patterns.

I marked the stitching lines on the pattern pieces and then pinned and roughly cut out the pattern pieces out of muslin.  Now I am ready to begin tracing the stitching lines onto the muslin pieces.  After I do that, I will "thread trace" all the stitching lines.  I'll post more about that later.

Here's a couple pictures:

 This is the fashion fabric.  It's olive green gabardine.  I ended up getting wooden buttons.

Here's the pattern pieces roughly cut out of muslin and ready to trace the stitching lines onto the muslin.


Thanks for reading.  Hope your weekend is going well!

Marla