Alborghetti Suit: Pocket

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As promised, here’s the step-by-step for installing the pocket. To refresh your memory on what the pocket is supposed to look like, you can refer back to the portrait.

First we start off with the interlining for the “poof”. I cut it from the last of the wool that I’ve used for years and years for this sort of thing. It provides body and springiness and I’ll miss it terribly. There wasn’t enough of it left by this point to get the whole thing out of one piece. Instead of trying to piece in scraps of the same stuff (which would make really bulky seams) I finished the ends off with some cotton I’ve been using for patterning. Conveniently enough, this will help reduce bulk at the inner leg, which is always a good thing in these situations. The poof was patterned based on the trunk hose pattern, with the pieces spread apart. I eyeballed a lot of lengths and had to make a few changes along the way, but it seems to have turned out okay.

The interlining.

The pocket slit marking.

The pocket bag.

The pocket basted in place.

The slit is cut through all layers.

A strip of velveteen is sewn (by machine) around the slit on the outside.

The binding is turned to the inside and sewn down by hand. The ends of the binding are wrangled together at this point.

The pocket bag is folded in half and sewn along both edges by machine.

The pocket bag is basted to the top edge of the poof.

The excess is trimmed.

Voila! A pocket!

Originally published at Lorenzo's Workshop