the final steps..

-yesterday I carried on with the manufacture of my tape jacket

-eighteen 

so after finishing half the bodice on Tuesday I then went back to it on Wednesday and attached the second half. I also topstiched along the back seam to help hold down the seam at the back 

-Nineteen

after completing the main bodice I decided to go back to attaching the upper sleeve to the bottom half of the sleeve on both sleeves (the most difficult area) 

I managed to attach the sleeve correctly on one of the sleeves but however it was for some strange reason more difficult on the second sleeve. 

-twenty 

so when it came to the second sleeve I decided to attach it in a different way by stitching the most difficult bit first and back tacking then going back and pinning the rest, by stitching the difficult bit first made it more stronger when pinning the rest as it didnt mean the pin would move.

-Twenty one 

the final few steps of the process was to attach the sleeves to the main bodice.

as the orignal giles deacon pattern that i followed required alot of gathering arouund the arm hole, however as the material i was using was not going to allow this i then had to problem solve.

Therefore i matched the two seams up on the main bodice and sleeve at the bottom of the arm hole and started to pin upwards towards the top. As there showed to be alot of excess material that was suppose to be gathered at the top i then decided to use this to create a pleat at the top, this turned out to be the best way to fit the sleeves into the armholes 

-twenty two 

I then repeated the same technique for the second seam 

-Twenty three 

my sustainable jacket was almost finished all that was left to do was tidy up some areas, as working with tape seem to be proven hard as alot of areas have been damaged and just need to be tied up.    

-This is tomorrows task.