Today's mantra was "work more, post less" so I have a lot of catching up to do!

Lining: trimmed to about 1.5 inches longer than hemmed jacket. Turned up and pressed a 1/2 inch hem allowance. . .


Aligned that edge just above jacket hem. This leaves an extra fold of lining for ease of movement.


I had to get a little creative with this treatment around the side vents and flaps. I ended up leaving the lining loose (not sewn at hem) for about 2 inches either side of vent, folding up the excess lining, and whip-stitching the vertical edge of the fold. This is still problematic. The fold wants to unfold at center rear, so I will probably give it a loose tack (like an inch of "leash") at center back. Not elegant, but effective -- I hope!

On to the sleeves. I stuffed one sleeve with a bath towel to make measurements easier. I decided that my cuff would be 4 inches at its shortest, and come to a 7 inch point. So I put a pin at the underarm sleeve at the 4 and 7 inch marks.


This allowed me to measure sleeve circumference at the hem, at the 4 inch height, and at the 7 inch height.


Using those measurements, I began to draw out the cuff pattern on a large piece of paper. I used a Macy's shopping bag -- I have lots of those, just ask Bob! Midway through pattern making, I decided the cuff's lowest point should be 3 inches rather than 4. Didn't bother to remeasure circumference, just drew an angled, vertical line between my hem level and 7 inch level ticks. I started with a gentle curve between the high and low points of cuff.


Cut out that pattern and pinned it to one sleeve to see how it looked.