Simplicity jacket 4698 E

This jacket was easy to construct. The only obstacle was trying to get the plaids to match. The plaids were uneven. I haven't done a jacket in a while and chose to use a fairly cheap synthetic piece of fabric that was less than 5 dollars a yard. It is nice when you luck out making your muslin and you like it! I did buy an expensive piece of plaid-red, grey and black wool for my next jacket. Alterations made to the jacket -I took in the breast area about an inch, shortened the sleeves, shortened the bodice, and I lined the entire jacket. This jacket only gives directions to line it in the inside front, and little pieces that connect up along the collar in the back. If I followed the directions it would have been completed sooner. However, I like my garments lined. The piping wasn't too bad to sew in between the bodice pieces. The only problem was the fabric was slippery and didn't catch and move smoothly under the foot and throat plate of my machine. Other than that, I think this jacket is fairly basic and has easy, straight forward directions to follow even for a newer sewer. I probably will do a different variation and line it completely again.