Vogue Jacket V7975 🧥 Mock-up & Alterations

I love this jacket pattern. Usually in an episode I make a tweed jacket or bead a jacket but this episode we're going way back to the beginning and I'm making 2 mock-ups of V7975.
The first is straight from the pattern, then I talk about the order to check for alterations, then I make a second mock-up incorporating all the changes.

[@deidrabenson361]

Thanks so much for sharing knowledge and expertise! ❤️

[@PerfectJacket]

Glad it was helpful! 🥰🧥🧡🎨✨

[@howardpennpenn]

You are obviously a very knowledgeable sewist...thankyou...fitting well is both difficult and important...❤

[@PerfectJacket]

Thanks! Glad it was useful! 🧥🥰🌸🎨🍂

[@robyn3349]

Thank you, Fin! This video is very helpful!💖

[@PerfectJacket]

Aw, thank you. 🥰 You're so welcome! 🎨🌼🧥💚

[@DarHarper-i8o]

SEW Nice of you! Thank You!

[@PerfectJacket]

Thanks. 🧥🎨 You are so welcome! 🧵🥰✨

[@tinelarsen1292]

Fantastic and helpful video 😀😊👍

[@PerfectJacket]

Thank you. 🥰 Glad it was useful! 🧥🧡

[@KellyfromMemphisDD214]

Just found your channel, enjoying it immensely!! 🤗

[@PerfectJacket]

Yay! Thank you! Welcome. 🌸🥰🍃🧥🧡

[@sherylfetik4126]

Thank you. I may try this jacket.

[@PerfectJacket]

Glad it was helpful. I really like the V7975. The instructions are really clear and doing alterations is pretty straight forward, for a jacket.

[@TheFondasue1]

Thank you! Very helpful!

[@PerfectJacket]

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[@ellenfrazer7581]

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[@PerfectJacket]

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[@jillk2334]

Thank you for this video. Very informative and helpful. 😀🧥🪡🧵🦋

[@PerfectJacket]

Thank you. 🧥🥰 Glad it was helpful! 🧵🌼🍃

[@warwickshirewolfpack]

Thank you for the video

[@PerfectJacket]

You're welcome! Glad it was useful. 🥰🧥🧵

[@breej5533]

Absolutely love your series. About to try v7975 with a simple fabric before I start on my Linton tweeds which arrived yesterday. With the more 'open ' tweeds do you increase the seam allowance? Thank you

[@PerfectJacket]

Thank you! Yes, where possible you should always increase your seam allowance with loose-weave tweeds. It will help the jacket age well.

[@My_Sewing_Journey]

Thank you for this video. I have found the content incredibly useful. Your insight is valuable.
What are your thoughts on fusing the tweed with lightweight or super lightweight fusible nylon (the slightly stretchy types?). I have observed that most of my Sandro and maje dresses are fused with, what looks like, an incredibly sheer fusible black or white organza which holds the tweed fibres in place? What are your thoughts on this method? Based on your experience, what are your thoughts on holding the warp/weft yarns of the tweed together by fusible or quilting means or any other means%?

[@therealnikkij]

Just by listening, I can not tell which darts and seams are being used (and where) to make the back & bust adjustments you’re talking about. Is there another video?

[@PerfectJacket]

Thanks. If you're making your first jacket, something with less pattern pieces might be easier, like Burda 6123. Once you wear one jacket you've made, you get a much better idea of what you would like to change.
The V7975 is a great pattern but it is a little advanced. As soon as you make the mock-up and put it on, if the back is too tight, you will feel it immediately. You slit the seam where it's too tight and pin it back together so that it fits, then adjust the pattern. Once you've fixed one problem, then you can go onto the next.
The order is sleeves, then back, then shoulders, then bust, then hips. If you do it in the wrong order, you'll get stuck in a loop of having to go back and re-adjust each thing.

[@therealnikkij]

@ Understood!

[@AntoinetteBarrett-i1l]

❤🧙

[@PerfectJacket]

Thanks!

[@BrendaMcintyre-g3x]

When did you put on #8 back neck facing?

[@PerfectJacket]

Do you mean the tweed yoke? It's part of the silk lining. It's tweed, not silk, to make the jacket stronger. Sew the pleats into the centre back silk piece. Press pleats flat. Then you pin and sew centre back (silk) to the yoke (tweed). Then you sew on the two (silk) side back pieces on either side.