hi everyone welcome back to my channel today i am going to show you how i made this kimono jacket
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i folded two and a half yards of fabric into four like this and the length that i have here is by 45
the width of my fabric after folding is 20.5 inches the first thing i am going to do
is to draw a baseline and from the baseline
measure the length of the jacket i'm using 38 inches plus one inch for hem allowance that's 39
for the neck width I'll use four inches and for the neck depth i'm going to use one inch so the
one inch is going to be for the back and then join it together after marking the neckline,
you'll measure from your shoulder to the waistline from the shoulder to waist line is 16 inches now
measure how wide you want the sleeve opening to be the person i'm making this for is a bit chubby
so i'm going to use a sleeve opening of about 13 inches now from the baseline i'll mark 13 inches
on the waist line you're going to use your hips measurement the hips measurement of my client
is about 46 inches i'll divide that by four i have 11.5 mark 11.5 then i'll add an extra three
inches so that it can be a bit wide okay on this line i'll measure in about three inches as well
and then i'm going to connect this three inch mark to this mark like this now whatever you have here
mark the same thing on the hem line i have about 15 inches in total draw a straight line to connect
on the edge of the clothes i'll come down by about one
inch and i'll connect this to the neckline okay
now we can cut it out
on the shoulder line i'm going to cut 0.5 inch above what i have here that's
going to be the shoulder joining
open up the fold that you have here
so i'm going to take out this top pattern i'll use it for the back
turn this to the wrong side
for the neck opening come down by about eight inches on this mark
come in by about half an inch okay and then you connect the neck width to this
when you get here curve it a little and then you go straight down half an inch then you cut it open
now the front is open
if you want to know how to remove this i have a short video on my
channel i'm going to put the link in the description box
for the pockets from the shoulder you measure about 21 inches down
measure this line okay the 21 inch line
and get the midpoint i have 15 inches here so i'll mark 7.5
so this is the midpoint of my pocket i'll do the same thing on this side
okay i'll put this aside now to cut the pockets get the remaining fabric that you have
fold it into four from the midpoint here you measure four and a half inches by nine inches
so i can cut it
so this is the pocket nine inches by nine inches
now after cutting this out the pocket the first thing you have to do is to hem the top part
so fold it 0.5 first and then you can do one inch okay then you sew a straight line first
now after sewing you bring in the pattern so this is the front pattern and this is the right side
now this crease that i have okay you place the crease on the mark that you made pin it down
then to sew it to the front pattern you fold this inward 0.5 inch or 0.25 for this as well 0.5 or
0.25 fold this as well at the bottom here 0.25 and then you sew on what you have folded okay
just sew very close to the edge like this and stop here so this place will be open remember you're
only sewing the sides and the bottom part okay so you sew it to the front pattern of the dress
i've sewn the pocket to the front pattern the next thing is to join into the back pattern
so i'm going to place the back pattern right sides facing up
place it right sides facing first sew the shoulder and the sides straight to the end
so i'll do that on both sides after that finish the sleeve opening fold it two times
and then you sew it all around by then you'd have joined here and here
so you just have this opening to sew round okay or you search it once and then you sew it
so guys i have sewn the side the next thing is to measure round from here from the bottom part
up until the neckline round it this is 60 inches here
so i have about 60 inches and 30. that is 90 inches right so i'm going to cut a fabric that is
90 inches long and four inches wide that is going to be the collar
i've cut the collar 90 inches long and four inches wide i folded it into two and ironed
it now to attach it get your clothes and then place the collar on the right side
from the hem pin it all around and sew with a 0.5 inch seam allowance and after doing that serge the
jackets if you have an overlocker you can overlock all the raw edges and that should be all thank you
very much for watching this tutorial i hope it was helpful please like share and subscribe bye
there are two ways of folding your fabric if you fold it this way you're going to have a joining at
the shoulder but if you want to fold it in a way such that you won't have a joining at the shoulder
let's assume that this is the two and a half yards and this is by 45 instead of folding it this way
that i did you're going to turn your two and a half yard of fabric this way okay so you fold
it this way and then you fold it like this so this top part will be your shoulder while this
would be your center front and your center back so every other thing remains the same