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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Newbie question maybe; which is which?
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    Pattern making learning process

    She HAS sewing machineS, and I'm in the process of remodeling her sewing room (along with about 1/3rd of the house). She makes things for our daughter all the time, and I'm sure son-to-be will get his share as well. Between the electronics, watchmaking, and existing leather work IN ADDITION TO...
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    Pattern making learning process

    I taught myself how to make guitars from scratch when I was 16… I already work with leather in other applications. I don’t need more machines taking up space. … but I like machines… Wife agreed to help me make a dress form…
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    Pattern making learning process

    Stop it!!! I already have too many time, space, and dollar consuming hobbies.
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    Pattern making learning process

    Some more photos and some information: Here are all the discarded drafts in a wadded up pile before going out for recycling. That belt there on top toward the bottom left of the pile is 12" long. Meanwhile, a bit more intel from the wife's piece of the puzzle. Here's where we started...
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    Pattern making learning process

    Once I have the shell, I think I could use it to make the flat panel yoke like that. The entire back still has to have material strategically removed to make it three dimensional, but I haven't gone beyond the darts yet. It may turn out, as I sit here thinking on the subject with this suggestion...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Haha! I was mostly thinking in terms of stoic pessimism and his thoughts on the origins of anger. The particular allegory that comes to mind is when Nero threw the slave to the lampreys for dropping/breaking the crystal goblet. He expected it to be perfect forever, rather than accepting that not...
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    Pattern making learning process

    Right off the bat, I want to be very clear here. I have never made a pattern. I have never made a garment. I am learning this as I go. I am not an expert. Disclaimer accomplished. Meanwhile, over on page 401 of the Fivestar thread, I stole some of my daughter's art supplies and started messing...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Initially I didn't think so, but I'm actually starting to agree with you here. I wasn't planning to do an actual pattern, but now I'm sort of getting a feel for it... Sort of seeing how it works. I really was just trying to figure out where and how to place the darts and how they work so that it...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I've got leather samples coming. $30 bailout point. It's a project. Learning is possibly the primary goal.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    The dart in that location is arching the top panel toward the shoulders. Every human has that curve. The dart isn't in any way doing anything female specific, and everything else looks like a pretty standard mens jacket.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    It is a textile jacket, but it's the style that's pertinent. The point is front darts in a manner that doesn't look feminine (to my eye at least). Darts are standard in women's clothing to make the bust work. Lots of curvature to accommodate for there. Men don't have as much curvature to deal...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Re: darts only being for women in the front: It's not entirely without precedent. I feel like I've seen similar darts elsewhere as well, but clearly a small minority.
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Shorter darts means a wider angle, and a wider angle causes them to pucker/get pointy. Reducing the angle reduces the curve on the edge and flattens everything out. It's possible to reduce the puckering by forming over a curved... form, but not sure if/how that works with leather, and that may...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    OK. Back panel contouring figured out. Laid flat. Measurements visible. I have an idea for communicating the less obvious stuff around the perimeter, but it's not yet pertinent. Darts connected: Longitudinal profile (laid flat): Lateral profile (laid flat): "Fit pics", but after I did...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    What's the waist on that 15" belt? Look like a woman's what and how?
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    Here's where we got last night. Not quite done, but very close. The recycle can is full of scrap trimmings, and there's a stack several inches thick on a stool nearby of discarded drafts. It's a little extra poofy looking (it's probably a good 4-5" off the table top at the highest point) because...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I'm really not patterning something from scratch here. That particular idea only entered my head with Canuck Panda's post up there, and his DM got me really thinking in that direction. It's not out of the question, but that's not this. What I'm doing here is just an exploration exercise. Like...
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    Five Star Leather Jackets

    I don't know if I can go so far as to say I'm doing the patterning. I'm tapping into my wife's sewing/costuming knowledge to try to understand how to shape the back panel with darts. We've been iterating with paper over the last few days, and I've come to the realization that the design I made...

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