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#WeekendSewingClub latest challenge: to shamelessly plagiarise this Alexander McQueen patchwork jacket.

I found a damned-near perfect dupe in a 2023 Burda magazine, and a truly delicious fabric pairing.

First task is to bisect the jacket pattern at the waist (and get it level all the way round!) and then swing the lower front edge out a wee bit.

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Woman wearing black/white checked suit, cropped to focus on the jacket. It is single breasted with just one button at the waist, and long, peaked lapels. There’s a horizontal seam at the waist. Above, the jacket is cut from a prince of wales check. Below the waist it’s a simple houndstooth check. Model is wearing matching houndstooth trousers.
Bale of wool fabric. On top is houndstooth check in black and white, with a subtle red overcheck. Below is Straight houndstooth. Both have the same slightly hazy, tweedy softness to the pattern. They feel as good as they look: dense and substantial jacket-weight.
Pattern line drawing for a jacket very similar to the one described in the first picture. The main difference is that it is indicating single pieces top-to-bottom, without the waist seam.
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Nate Vack 🍴
Those shoulders!!
Jenny Andrew
That’s the detail I’m not confident about replicating! I’ve actually got some kick-up shoulder pads, but I don’t know exactly how I’d have to alter the pattern to make room for them 🤷‍♀️
Jenny Andrew
But God help me if my stoopid hyperfocused brain isn’t now going to be working on *that* puzzle all night…
Giselle
Delicious indeed! That's a fab pattern, swinging out a bit sounds perfect.
Jenny Andrew
my hips would probably do half the job on their own, but I do want it to look like a design feature rather than a dodgy fit! 😅
Giselle
LOL! You'll do a great job.

I thought at first that the diagonal lines were pocket flaps? Are they?
Looking at this a bit more makes it look like the front side piece overlaps below the waist line, like a big flap but without a pocket beneath, I mean just as a design feature. That would be very intriguing! And Burda patterns can be pretty weird.
Jenny Andrew
you’re right the first time: the upper side front extends AS the pocket flap. I’m not kidding: it really is a brazen rip-off of that McQueen jacket…
Jenny Andrew
This has been a bit of a performance… if I had a dress form it would be easier, but I definitely do not have space for a dress form, especially with the bales of fabric taking up every inch of floor space 😳

Anyway, I have made do with tissue-fitting: on me for the fit; draped over a foam roller to sketch on the waist line; back on me to check it’s in the right place.

Tomorrow I *might* do some messing around with the shoulder silhouette.
Pattern pieces for one half of the jacket, cut out of tissue and pinned together along the seam lines, then draped over a foam roller and weighted in place to give it some curvature around the waist
The same pattern pieces, now pretty flat to the table, but with a curved line sketched all round them, marking the intended waist seam.
ax6761
Like the pattern of the fabric.
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