Video: The Brooklyn Jacket
Hey Artists! Come join me for a video tutorial on the Brooklyn Jacket! You'll learn how to sew this sweet little jacket from start to finish, including many key skills:
Sewing a faux welt pocket
Fully lining a jacket with facings
Creating perfect covered buttons
Crowding stitches to ease a sleeve cap
Check out the video description on Youtube, and use the handy dandy time stamps to click directly on the exact part of the video you'd like to watch.
Hope you love the video! Don't forget to download the pattern and instructions in my separate post.
xoxo,
Gertie
P.S. Please don't share this video link (including posting on public Pinterest boards) so we can continue creating content exclusively for you!
Comments (23)
Love this jacket - about to embark on a toile! Also love your dress in the video - could you as standard add into the video description what pattern(s) you are wearing? There are so many patterns now that going through to find them is quite a (good) challenge! Thanks as always for everything you do for us!
Hello, ladies. Currently working on the waist lenght version, size 14, and I have a tiny little problem - the front facing doesn't match with front part, the straight part from neck down to the closure curve is a bit longer on the facing piece. It can be easily fixed, I'm just wandering, if it's only me or Is there a bug in the pattern
I just started making the waist length version in a size 6 B/C cup (so the same sizes 2-20 files) and I discovered the same problem! I was wondering if it was me as well because I traced off and altered the pattern, but I double checked the original pattern pieces and they don't align. Thankfully, I noticed it before cutting out the facing fabric!
I love the Brooklyn jacket. The pattern pieces line up so good and when you do exactly like the video it works like a glove. I almost finish my jacket and I have enjoyed the plain working.
This is coming up as the Carosel Dress and not the Brooklyn Jacket, is it working for anyone else?
The YouTube link goes to the Carosel Dress still, but I don’t know if they check the comments regularly here to fix it. You can watch the Brooklyn Jacket video in Patreon for the correct video though.
I love Gertie’s videos for multiple reasons: instructional for new techniques but also great to get a visual to go along with the written pattern instructions! I like the step-by-step but also get that for an intermediate pattern like this jacket, the beginner steps aren’t necessary. So I would say if the video made no sense to you, start with an easier pattern! Hope this helps 😊
Wanted to make the jacket. But I haven´t don any jackets so the video made no sense to me, jumping over important steps that I didn´t understand. Made it very difficult for me. You can´t presume that everybody knows how to do stuff because it was in another video. Sure I can jump back and forth between videos trying to grasp how to do something but it defeats the purpose with a video to the pattern you just released. So please make all the steps in the vidoes, it´s a lot easier for us that doesent sew everything you release <3
You can take specific questions to the facebook group - everyone there is extremely nice, helpful and knowledgable.
The videos are a great companion to your patterns! And they're so professionally done! Thank you!
Gertie you are so very giving! I surely appreciate your videos. I have been sewing for more than 50 years and you have taught me so much and have made me a better seamstress I'm so grateful for all you do
I know how you feel. I wasted so many years waiting for a platform like this.
Cannot wait to sew this!
Yes to this project; YES to welt pockets. This is what I love about the Patreon subscription, you go to the details overlooked, or thought to be already known by other pattern companies. Thanks for this! The details that are somewhat optional are what make your patterns unique. Looking forward to the next one, and the one after that, and the one after that, etc. Thanks Gertie!
I'm newish to garment making so was wondering if a medium weight quilting cotton would work for this jacket? Delighted with this months pattern. Thank you Gertie 🥰
Oh, so lovely!
I’m thinking about recycling my denim jeans for this project!
I like it when you sew the whole project on camera
Thanks for your feedback! We're trying some different approaches now because there have been a lot of requests here for additional video content (like Charm sew-alongs) so we're trying to figure out how we can make more videos with the time/resources we have now. Hopefully we'll figure out an approach that makes the most of the video time we have!
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ LOVE IT!!!
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Omg!! I LOVE IT!!
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