The pictures have uploaded! Yay! Today, I had to make an appearance at my employer's annual summer picnic, but managed to escape before the Karaoke (sp?) contest. I did get pictures of Panache playing frisbee in his Matt Newsome Galbraith kilt (sorry, these are not uploaded yet-ask him!).

All, of course, beyond the point here.

Today, I finished the jacket, except for one unexpected setback.

First, I finished the bottom hem-remember (or not, if you're not that dedicated to following my threads in detail ), I forgot to post the pictures of sewing the front part on the machine. The back does not need to continue the visible seam of the lapels, and on the original jacket this seam was a blind hem stitch (a la "Sewing for Dummies"-look it up!). Therefore, I copied this on the altered jacket.



Then, I decided to work on the epaulettes (thanks for the spelling help Brian and James!). I figured I needed to seam rip the outer shell AND lining, then insert the epaulette like so...



I discovered during this process that it really wasn't necessary to do this, and it made for a rather unkempt looking lining, when resewn. I guess this doesn't really matter, but as some may recall, I'm a bit of an anal retentive perfectionist, therefore this bothered me.



On the other side, I just seam ripped the OUTER seam of the sleeve...



And inserted the epaulatte.



I just sewed through the epaulette while sewing the seam back together. I couldn't get a good picture of EXACTLY how I did this-if you want to know, ask me to show you when you're in this neck of the woods. Tweed is VERY forgiving of stitching (in other words, you can do a lot of stitching without it showing-it just buries itself in the thickness of the fabric and the pattern).


More to come...

Be well,