Cropped Faux Fur Toggle Jacket
This women's sewing pattern features a chic cropped, fully lined jacket crafted from faux fur, detailed with contrasting faux leather plackets, collar, cuffs and lower band, metal clasp fastenings on straps, and a separate buckled belt.
When To Wear
This jacket is perfect for adding a touch of sophisticated warmth and style, making it an ideal choice for:
- Chic Everyday Wear: Elevate casual outfits with its unique texture and design.
- Transitional Weather: Provides stylish warmth for cooler autumn and spring days or mild winters.
- Statement Outerwear: a distinctive piece to complete an ensemble for social gatherings or evenings out.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: Cropped, slightly boxy length; the lower edge of the jacket is lightly gathered into a faux leather lower band.
Collar & Placket: Wide collar with a faux leather upper collar and faux fur under collar; faux leather edge plackets run along both front edges.
Closure: Separating zipper set between the front plackets, accented with four faux leather straps joined by metal clasps (carabiner hooks) and rings.
Sleeves: Full-length two-piece sleeves (front and back sleeve sewn to the front and back), finished with folded faux leather cuffs.
Front: Bust darts shape the fronts.
Back: Clean back finished with the faux leather lower band.
Waist: A separate faux leather belt with a buckle passes through two belt loops on the lower band.
Length: Finishes at a flattering cropped length, around the waist or high hip.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires experience with specialty fabrics like faux fur and faux leather, precise assembly of multiple pieces, zipper insertion, a full bagged lining, and constructing the strap-and-clasp closures and belt.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose materials that offer structure and visual interest for the main body and contrasting details:
- Faux fur
- Faux leather
- Lining fabric
Additional Supplies
- Lining fabric
- Fusible interfacing
- 1 separating zipper
- 4 carabiner (snap hook) clasps
- 4 rings for the clasps
- 1 belt buckle
Cutter's Must
- From Faux Fur:
- Back Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Front Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Back – 1 piece
- Front – 2 pieces
- From Faux Leather:
- Back Placket – 2 pieces
- Lower Front Placket – 4 pieces
- Right Edge Placket – 1 piece
- Right Inner Edge Placket – 1 piece
- Left Edge Placket – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Waistband – 1 piece
- Strap – 16 pieces
- Belt-Loop – 1 piece
- From faux leather and faux fur:
- Collar – 2 pieces (1 from faux leather for the upper collar, 1 from faux fur for the under collar)
- From lining Fabric:
- Back Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Front Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Back – 1 piece
- Front – 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Back Placket – 1 piece
- Lower Front Placket – 2 pieces
- Right Edge Placket – 1 piece
- Left Edge Placket – 1 piece
- Cuff – 2 pieces
Attention: Before fusing faux leather pieces, test on a scrap piece.
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse the faux leather pieces with fusible interfacing.
- Place the Strap pieces in pairs, right sides together, and stitch along 3 sides. Trim the seam allowances close to the seam. Turn the straps right side out, press, and edgestitch 0.1 cm from the seam.
- Press the Right Edge Placket along the fold line. Place the Right Edge Placket and the Right Inner Edge Placket right sides together and insert the zipper between them so that the teeth face away from the edge. Stitch the plackets together, simultaneously stitching in the right half of the zipper. Fold back the inner placket, aligning the long edges, thus forming an applied placket. Topstitch the seam allowances to the inner placket. Place the two Left Edge Placket pieces right sides together, insert the left half of the zipper and stitch the plackets together. Stitch the plackets along the upper and lower edges. Turn them right side out and topstitch along 3 sides at 0.1 cm and 0.7 cm.
- Thread the end of each strap through a carabiner clasp by 3 cm and stitch down. Finish the remaining straps with the rings in the same way. Pin the straps with carabiners to the right placket and the straps with rings to the left placket. Close the zipper, hook the carabiners onto the rings, and adjust the length of all straps. Stitch the raw ends of the straps to the raw edges of the plackets. Open the zipper and continue to handle the plackets as 2 separate units.
- Stitch the bust darts on the Front pieces.
- Stitch the Front Sleeve to the Front. Stitch the Back Sleeve to the Back.
- Stitch the shoulder seams together with the upper sleeve seams.
- Stitch the underarm sleeve seam and the side seam in one continuous seam.
- Press the Cuff in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. Unfold the cuff, fold it right sides together and stitch it into a ring. Turn the cuff right side out and press the seam open. Stitch the cuff to the lower edge of the sleeve.
- Fold the Belt-Loop in 3 layers and stitch. Cut it into 2 belt loops.
- Stitch the Lower Front Placket pieces to the Back Placket. Press the seams open. Sew the lower end of each belt loop to the side seam of the outer part of the band at the markings. Attach the upper end of the belt loops to the upper edge of the band.
- Sew a row of long, loose stitches along the lower edge of the jacket and gather it slightly. Stitch the outer part of the lower band to the lower edge of the jacket.
- Sew the lining pieces in the same way as the outer pieces, leaving an opening in the underarm seam of the left sleeve for turning. Stitch the lining to the inner part of the lower band.
- Stitch the upper (faux leather) Collar into the jacket neckline. Stitch the under (faux fur) Collar into the lining neckline. Press the seams open.
- Place the lining and the jacket right sides together, insert the edge plackets between them and stitch the front edges, the collar and the lower edge. Stitch the lining to the sleeve hems. Turn the jacket right side out through the opening in the sleeve lining. Stitch the opening closed.
- Topstitch along the seam joining the lower band to the back and fronts, and along the lower edge.
- Fold the Waistband (belt) in half lengthwise, right sides together, and stitch along three sides, leaving a 7–10 cm opening in the middle of the long side. Turn the belt right side out and press. Topstitch around the edge at 0.5 cm, closing the opening at the same time. Thread on the buckle.
