Moving Right Along

Made decent progress over the past few days. Interfacing is completely secured on the front and back. Installed the turnback panels on the front edge, and I installed the pockets. My cat got a lot accomplished too. He managed to cover the entire thing in his hair.

Here's a shot of the interior of the waistcoat. The plain linen lining will be slip stitched to the turnback panel once it's installed to conserve fashion fabric. As is stands right now, this waistcoat will have 29 button holes on it. That may reduce to 25, if I change up my sleeve closure plans.

In the 18th century all buttonhole and buttons were functional. I'm currently researching if jiggers (a button on the inside of the coat to hold the interior panel in place) existed in the 18th century, but have not found evidence thus far. There will be a row of 10 buttonholes on the edge of each front panel, and the buttons will be on the inside edge.

The next big thing that I got done were the pockets. Pockets are something that drive me up a wall. I am a measure twice, measure again, and measure a fourth time just in case kind of person, and pockets just do not required that amount of intricacy. It drives me up a wall. I won't got into too much detail about the process of putting together pockets because there is a video of Henry Cooke sewing a pocket out there on YouTube that is much better than anything that I could put together. Check it out. 

Instead of a tutorial, you just get the finished product, cat hair and all. Deal with it. 

On our next episode: Button hole purgatory.