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Denim Blazer: Alteration

3/15/2018

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So!  The denim blazer saga concludes!  It began with Simplicity 7954, made up in charcoal denim, requiring some changes to the paper pattern to make it fit my sister, but I couldn't be sure of the changes because my sister was far away.  The result looked really cool on a manikin, less well-fitted in person.  But not bad for sewing long distance...

But recently I visited my sister, and decided to make the darn thing fit properly!  So I armed myself with seam ripper and went, once more, unto the breach...
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THE ALTERATION

Here is the offending baggy back as sewn, and next to it, the same back unsewn!  My sister laughed: "You tease... You make me a jacket, then come visit me and rip it to shreds!" 
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Sewn
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Left side unsewn, piping hanging loose. Right side pinned in new configuration.
Predictably, the problem is in the side panel, same as in the raglan shirt pattern.  I make the triangular tuck and pin the seam in place, thus shortening the back. 
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But where does the excess back length go?  It spills out the top of the seam, into the shoulder/armscye! 
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I make grumbly remarks about my sister's body, and she says I'm giving her a complex.  Then I pin some more, and she pretends I'm stabbing her ("ow, my flesh").  I angle this seam so it goes downward into the vertical seam and doesn't change the shape of the armscye, because I want to avoid the extreme hassle of altering the sleeves as well. 

Eventually, it's all pinned out... and a peculiar bunch of seams we now have!  I baste them down and prepare to sew: first the back chevron, then the vertical seams, then the sleeves into armscyes.  A little hand-sewing is required around Center Back, but not much. 
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all pinned
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seams basted, ready to machine-sew

FINISHED

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With front unbuttoned
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With front buttoned
I say we call those chevron seams a design feature!  I wish the vertical lines of piping  flared out at the bottom instead of the top... I think this was the wrong pattern to start with.  But I don't hate it now, so that's good! 
2 Comments
The Sister
3/16/2018 10:32:27 am

Aaaaugh! I see my waist! It's been so long...!

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Karen Roy link
3/17/2018 10:53:16 am

Hello, waist. Where were you hiding? Under all those folds of cloth? Well, we'll just have to make you some clothes that fit!

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