V8333 pockets

These are the pockets that give a seamstress nightmares. 

Ok, so this is what the pocket is supposed to look like (taken from the pattern envelope).  

Isn't that detail just lovely? Now, you see why I chose this jacket.  

So, it looks simple enough.  TWO hours later, yes, 
TWO hours later, I had what resembled 

this pocket detailing.  

Maybe I just needed more tea the day I 
attempted these pockets.  

Maybe I was just on the struggle bus.  

Since this is the muslin, I have skipped a bunch of steps, I'm not sewing hair canvas and a lining this go round.  That would be why the numbers are all over the place. 

Step 4: Baste darts on front.  No picture for you, but this step is pretty easy.

Step 26 & 27:  Join the pocket and fold the pocket to the wrong side along the foldline closest to center front.  This first time I did this, I was clearly on the struggle bus because I folded it along the fold line closest to the side seam - Don't do what I did, do what the pattern says! 

Step 28: Turn the front section over with wrong side up; fold the pocket on the roll line with right sides together.  So this I didn't understand why they said turn the front section over with wrong side up...it's already turned over.  Maybe it's for people who wanted to look at the right side of their pretty fashion fabric. This is the wrong side of my fabric (see my markings on on the other side) 

Step 29: With wrong side together;fold front on the second fold line. Baste.

Same step, front view. 

Step 30: Right sides together, base the side front to the front section.  Pretty self explanatory. 

Step 31: Right sides up, pin the front pocket opening edge to the side front along the placement line.  Baste the pocket opening close to the folded edge.  This is where the struggle started.  If you look at the photo below, the blues lines are the placement lines. If I matched up the placement lines then I don't get two pleat/pintucks. Maybe I understood the directions incorrectly.  

So I just adjusted the folds so it looked nice 

and all the seams were flat. 

And VOILA! I have the pleats, plus my pocket.

The red basting in this photo is the pocket opening.  This photo is the inside of the garment. 

And both sides. If you look closely on the left side you can see my wannabe fell stitches.  

Yeah, I'mma need to work on those.  
P.S. the sides don't look event in this shot, but they are. 

Now onto collars and shoulder seams oh my!

Happy New Year!

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

Happy New Year folks!

I am very excited about what 2015 has in store for Sadie & Company.  Good things are a brewing!  What better way to start a new year than getting getting in the kitchen and the sewing machine.    Today I started a new batch of green tea kombucha, collard green krat, vanilla extract, and fermented carrots.  Can you say noms noms!  I'm also about to hop on that ol' sewing machine and get some sewing done, new designs to come.

Take today to reflect on what changes you want to see in your life and then make sure those changes happen.