Another black jacket

I do love my black jackets, as regular readers will know. A few years ago I made BWOF 08/2006 No. 108 in black wool. I wore it at least once a week, every week for over three years at a guess. Such wear takes its toll and sadly it went to the wardrobe in the sky a few months ago. But being a creature of habit, I missed this jacket terribly. So, I'm making a new one. This one is polyester suiting from Rosenbergs. I've already made two pairs of trousers from the same fabric and this is the last bit of it. Its been cut out for months but I only just got round to digging it out and sewing it up. So far, it looks like this:

Being poly, it doesn't tailor easily like wool. However, I do think that the dimpling you can see on the photo will come out once the sleeves go in, or at least will reduce sufficiently to be presentable. As usual, the camera makes it more wrinkly than it really is. Its actually come out quite well but was photographed in strong light so all the imperfections have shown up.

I am hoping to get this finished this week as I have some time off work this week and next. Its half term at College and I'm almost caught up with the work, so have decreed it possible to play for a bit. I shall be going into Leeds later in the week and hope to get some summer jacket fabric.

I did start a summer jacket in some gorgeous peacock coloured cotton gabardine last week.... however, the TNT pattern wasn't as TNT as I had thought. It was so far from being TNT that the whole entire jacket had to be thrown into the bin almost as soon as it had been cut out, thereby wasting a very lovely piece of fabric. The fabric was a remnant that was only just big enough for the jacket. I can't get more fabric. So that was, rather swiftly, the end of that. Yesterday was spent altering the tissue yet again and making a very quick and dirty muslin,which now appears correct.... at least until I find something else wrong with it. Seconds out, round two.