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Embellishment Explosion #36 
Inspiration to Action
By Pauline Richards, Total Embellishments

Materials Needed:

• Front button, round neck jacket pattern of your choice or McCall's 8155,2200 or 2112 without the collar.

• Base fabric, 1� yards of 45" wide fabric (yardage given is for a size 12, adjust for your size)

• � yard each pink, green and purple fabric in the same weight as the base

• 5 buttons

• About 70" of �" to 1" wide Ultra Suede Strips or bias fabric tubes, backed with Steam A Seam 2^�

• Tape

• Lining for entire jacket

• Fusible interfacing

Cutting:

• Copy the pattern right front and complete back onto pattern tracing cloth. Copy  the grainlines and extend them from top to bottom on each pattern piece.

• Transfer the design lines shown in the diagram to the copies

• Cut along the design lines

• Add 5/8" seam allowances to each cut edge

• Position the pattern pieces right side up on the right side of a single fabric layer in the appropriate color

• Cut all jacket pieces

• Create a one-piece jacket front trim band by marking a line 2�" in from the neck, center front and lower jacket edge seamline

• Create a 2�" wide band pattern for the back neck, jacket back, lower edge and cuffs

• Back each trimpiece with fusible interfacing

Construction:

• Create a jacket front and back by sewing the colorblocked pieces together in sequence

• Press seams open

• Cover all seams with prepared bias tubes or UltraSuede strips and press in place

• Edgestitch the strips to secure them permanently

• Join jacket shoulders and side seams, press

• Sew the interfaced bands together at the shoulder seams, and position them wrong side down against the jacket aright side

• Secure the layers by sewing �" from the outer jacket edges

• Turn the band inner edges under �", pin into place and secure with machine stitches

• Construct the lining 

• Complete the jacket according to the instructions

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