The Starlet Jacket: Beginning

Random picture from the local flower shop

Last week, I started working on the Starlet Jacket from Gertie's Craftsy online course as practice for the jackets I will be making in my patternmaking lessons in September. The biggest challenge I face at ESMOD is to follow the class in Japanese. Quite often I don't know the words or expressions to ask questions or to even have a decent conversation with the teacher. So when I saw this course on Craftsy, I immediately purchased it thinking that the information from the course would help me to tackle the jacket challenge in the classroom

The first problem occurred when I was cutting the pattern; it did not look right. Leaving the pattern on the floor, I rushed to check what others were saying about the pattern online. And indeed, at least two of them (K-line & SewWell) reported that some of the pattern pieces had been mismatched! Luckily, the scraps from the pattern were lying on the floor and I re-attached the pieces #2 & #15 and cut them again.

According to the sizing, I should be a 4. But what you see below is at least one size bigger. Gertie was overly generous with the sizing.

The next muslin I made in size 2 (sorry, no photo) - this time the jacket fits but needs some tweaking at the armscye. To be continued.