Short Jacket with Floating Front and Cuffed Sleeves

Name: Short Jacket with Floating Front and Cuffed Sleeves
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2047
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2047

A short, fitted women's jacket with a collarless V-neckline, princess seams front and back, and a loose double-layer front panel that is free at its outer and lower edges. Three-quarter sleeves end in folded contrast cuffs. Fully lined. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: medium-weight woven fabrics with body for the main jacket, such as suiting, crepe or tweed, and a contrasting woven for the panel lining and cuffs.

Tech. Description

Short Jacket with Floating Front and Cuffed Sleeves

When To Wear

Over dresses and tops in spring and autumn, in place of a blazer.
With trousers or a pencil skirt for office wear, the contrast panel and cuffs matched to one fabric.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted, shaped by princess seams from the armhole on the front and back.

Length: Short, ending at the high hip; the fronts end in a point.

Neckline: Collarless V-neckline, finished with the front facings and a back neck facing.

Front: A floating front panel, cut from main fabric and backed with contrast fabric, caught into the front princess seam and shoulder seam. Its lower edge is held to the jacket with invisible stitches from the wrong side.

Closure: One snap fastener at the front.

Sleeves: One-piece set-in sleeves with an eased cap, three-quarter length, with a contrast cuff folded in half lengthwise.

Back: Centre back seam and princess seams.

Finishing: Shoulder pads; fusible stay tape along the back neckline.

Lining: Full lining, bagged out through an opening in the left sleeve elbow seam.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Princess seams, a bagged-out lining, set-in sleeves with eased caps and a two-layer panel stitched into a seam.

Fabric Recommendations

Medium-weight woven fabrics with body for the main jacket, such as suiting, crepe or tweed, and a contrasting woven for the panel lining and cuffs.

Additional Supplies

Contrast fabric (floating front backing, cuffs)
Lining fabric
Fusible interfacing (centre fronts, front facings, back neck facing)
Fusible stay tape
Shoulder pads
1 snap fastener

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
- Center back – 2 pieces
- Side back – 2 pieces
- Side front – 2 pieces
- Center front – 2 pieces
- Flying front – 2 pieces
- Front facing — 2 pieces
- Back neckline facing – 1 piece
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
From contrast fabric:
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Flying front – 2 pieces

Lining pieces are cut according to the main fabric pieces, subtracting the width of the back neckline facing.

From lining fabric:
- Center back – 2 pieces
- Side back – 2 pieces
- Side front – 2 pieces
- Lining for center front – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 2 pieces

From fusible interfacing: center front, front facing, back neckline facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the designated pieces. Apply an additional fusible stay tape along the back neckline edge.
Place the flying front pieces right sides together and stitch the outer and lower edges. Trim seam allowances at the corner and turn right side out. Press the piece. Lay the flying piece onto the center front and secure along the princess seam and shoulder edges.
Stitch the princess seam on the front. Press seam allowances towards the side seam.
Stitch and press open the princess seams on the back. Stitch the center back seam. Press seam allowance open.
Stitch the shoulder seams of the jacket. Press seam allowances open. Stitch the side seams of the jacket. Press seam allowances open.
Stitch the sleeve seam. Press seam allowances open. Stitch the cuff into a loop, press seam allowances open. Fold the cuff in half lengthwise and attach to the bottom of the sleeve.
Set the sleeves into the armholes according to the notches, easing the sleeve cap at the top. Attach shoulder pads.
Stitch and press open the shoulder seams of the back neckline facing and front facing. Stitch the lining pieces similarly to the main fabric pieces, leaving an opening in the left elbow seam of the sleeve. Attach the lining to the neckline facing and front facing.
Place the jacket and lining right sides together, pin, aligning the outer edges. Stitch the lining along the front opening and neckline. Attach the lining to the bottom of the jacket. Attach the lining to the bottom of the sleeve. Turn the jacket right side out through the opening. Close the technical opening.
Secure the flying front with invisible stitches from the wrong side.
Attach a snap fastener to the front.