🙃 Ski Jacket Part I

I evaluated the swatches I ordered and settled on Seattle Fabric’s 3-Ply SWB-Tex. It’s the closest thing to what I imagined in terms of weight and hand feel, and it’s essentially Gore-Tex as it has a PTFE membrane. Some of the other options were much lighter and supposedly just as waterproof, but I was skeptical of the durability.

Traced the design and started playing with color options.

Jersey mesh and taffeta for the liner. Microfleece for the collar and pockets. SWB-Tex for the shell. Waterproof zipper.

I had to re-trace and re-cut the patterns before starting because I was sizing up from my mockup.

Zipper garage. The orange thread I picked up matched the fabric very well.

Welt panel gets sewn to the face fabric.

The inner welt is cut and flipped inside-out.

The zipper with garage gets positioned in the hole.

The zipper is top stitched in place with small bartacks at the top and bottoms.

To turn this into an actual pocket, a piece of fleece is sewn to the welt material on the inside. The original pattern did not have a pocket of this kind, so I made this up as I went.

Welt seams complete with excess fabric showing.

Final pocket after trimming excess and stitching tops and bottoms of the pocket.

The result is a clean pocket with no exposed seams.