This is a jacket made from a pattern that my friends gifted me for my birthday. This pattern looks like something I would wear for spring, but since my birthday falls in the fall (see what I did there?), I decided to alter it to make it fall appropriate. I chose to make view D, fully lined with a zipper instead of the string or cord. I got the fabric for this project from my favourite local fabric store called Dressew. I used a mustard coloured canvas fabric (my favourite colour) for the outside, and a blue fuzzy fabric for the inside.

I spent about $30 for everything that day. The layout for the mustard fabric was super easy and roomy. Unfortunately I made the decision of fully lining the jacket AFTER buying the fabric so I was cut short with my blue fuzzy. So I (again) turned a blind eye on the straight of the grain with my sleeves and chugged forward. This kinda really sucked because this fabric had such a distinct straight of the grain, but in the end I am the only one who knows anything is wrong, since it was lining. 

For construction I couldn't really follow the written instructions because of all of the alterations I made. I sat down before hand and walked through everything in my head to make sure it would work out in the end. Basically, I sewed all of the outside, then all of the inside as if they were two separate garments. I used casing and elastic for the waist of the outside, but for the inside I was lazy and just stretched elastic over the waist and sewed it down with a zigzag, gathering it that way instead. Then, I sewed both parts, right sides together, at the front (including the hood) while sandwiching the zipper, right side facing the mustard.

Now let's take a moment to look at the pocket.

I sewed the pocket to the sides, as the instructions indicated, but I understitched it before sewing the two sides together. This made the understitching easier and neater. Beware that you have to be very careful about matching seams and understitching when you sew the sides together.