Before I show you the matching reversible(ish) Burdastyle 11/2013 #117 moto jacket I suppose I should catch you up on my jacket block(s) experiment, since I used that as my fitting yard stick for this jacket.
Remember my Kenneth King moulage from way back when? And the Top Block that I muslined backed in January? I never did show you the Jacket Block that’s derived from the Top Block did I? Well not properly anyway. You kind of saw it in my mess of a WIP block patterns. I never did muslin the Jacket & Coat Blocks.
Since this moto jacket is fitted & without internal structuring, I decided to make a few tweaks to my Jacket Block before using it to adjust the Burda pattern.
The revised Fitted Jacket Block is still mostly based on Kenneth King’s Moulage CD book. But I cross-checked against my two other pattern-making books that have instruction for converting basic bodice block to jacket block (Connie Crawford’s Patternmaking Made Easy. and Dennic Chunman Lo’s Patternmaking: Portfolio Skills). They all do it slightly differently. KK’s version seem to have the most ease. Dennic mentions the tighter fit of modern designs, so in the end I reduced the amount of ease to:
| Shoulder | out 1/2″ | up 3/8″ | |
| Cross-front | out 0″ | ||
| Cross-back | out 3/4″ | ||
| Underarm | out 7/8″ | down 7/8″ | |
| Bust | out 7/8″ | (total ease: 3-1/2″) | |
| Waist | out 5/8″ | (total ease: 2-1/2″) | |
| High Hip | out 5/8″ | ||
| Hip | out 7/8″ | (total ease: 3-1/2″) | |
| These are all relative to the skin-tight 0″ ease moulage. | |||
The darts were shifted only 3/8″ width-wise. I didn’t bother lowering the waist for this Fitted Jacket Block, especially as this particular moto jacket will have no interfacing nor lining, so no extra layers accommodate.
Next, I had to pivot the horizontal bust dart into a shoulder dart to create a Fitted Shoulder Princess Jacket Block.
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And as the Burda jacket won’t have shoulder pads, I had decrease the shoulder ease / extensions and account for my uneven shoulder.
So my final block for checking the Burda jacket fit looks like this compared to the Moulage:
Your thoroughness is very inspiring for this lazy sewist…. 😀