In order to get a good thing, you need to contact a specialist. But if there is a desire and a minimum of skills, you can try to do it yourself. How to sew a jacket? First of all, you should determine to whom the thing is intended: a man or a woman. Next, you should choose a sewing style. The length of the jacket, its shape and other features depend on the fashion trend, individual taste, the figure of the customer, the purpose of the thing. The next step is the choice of fabric, its color, the material from which it is made, its thickness and pattern.
Summer jackets are sewn without a lining, and classic ones with a lining and a collar. We purchase fabric and begin work. For sewing any thing, and even more so a jacket, you should make a product pattern. To do this, take measurements. Measurements should be taken from a person in underwear or in light clothing. It should be remembered that errors when taking measurements, are followed by errors in the drawing. In the end result, the product will not fit well on the figure.
The basic measurements necessary to sew the desired thing:
neck circumference
chest circumference
waist circumference
thigh circumference
length of the product
back width
shoulder width
the length of the sleeve
back length to waist
Based on these data, a drawing is made. How a drawing is made is a separate topic, large and complex. The drawing, as a rule, is done by half the figure. Based on the drawing, the pattern of the desired thing is made. Such patterns are called cartridges.
Now we take the fabric, fold it in half along the shared thread, spread it on a flat surface, pin the cartridge to it with pins so that the shoulders fall on the fold line. We begin to cut the jacket. It is always necessary to cut the material not along the edge of the cartridge, but 1 cm from the edge, since you always need to have a supply of material for the seams.
Details are cut out. The first step is good. What to do next? How to sew a jacket? The answer is to calmly continue work. First of all, we sew “on a living thread” (that is, basting) the details of the jacket. Sour cream details should be tried on. When sewing any product, as a rule, two fittings are made.
When making the first fitting, attention should be paid to the ratio of the shapes of the product and the figure, the ratio of parts between each other for length and width. At the first fitting, the location of small parts (collar, lapels, pockets) and their size should be clarified. The next stage in the work: checking the depth of the neckline, shoulder seam, armhole line.
Further, a contrasting thread indicates the line of the bottom of the jacket, the bottom of the sleeve, armhole. For the correct connection of the sleeve, it is necessary to designate the extreme points of the ridge of the sleeve, the shoulder of the product, the beginning and end of the fit of the sleeve. Trying is carried out on a ready-made corsage. The purpose of the corsage is to keep the shape of the product. Next, prepare the collar and sweep it to the neck.
It is more convenient to start sewing with darts.
After the work done, we conduct the second fitting. We put on a jacket, specify the position of the shoulder and side seams, armholes, the location of the sleeve in the armhole. If necessary, eliminate defects and stitch the product.
In fact, the work is done. Small details remained: the length of the jacket, the length of the sleeve are specified, the bottom of the product is hemmed, the wrong sections are processed, the loops are cut and sewn.
The bottom of the sleeve, and the bottom of the jacket as a whole, must be hemmed manually by a secret seam or on a hemming machine. Finally, we take out the basting threads with which the parts were swept away, we perform wet-heat treatment, we hang a jacket on a mannequin for drying. The final touch - sew buttons.
To the question of how to sew a jacket, the answer follows - it is not easy. Work requires accuracy, accuracy, patience and considerable skills. But as a reward to the person who undertakes this painstaking work, a truly exclusive thing will be given as a gift, which will be only in a single copy and only with him.