But also like… 
Fuck it lol
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But that’s how you learn! Honestly the best experience for me was by just saying fuck it and trying stuff like this
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Yes it’s the fuck it just try bit where most of us learn fastest!
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Question:
I need to extend the front panels by an inch or two on the lapels side.
Would you add essentially a flap after the lapels turn in OR just expand and draw down evenly the lapels?
Does that make sense?
Pictured is a lazy temporary version of #1 for fitting reasons.
Pinging @Ckni27 if you have time to consider.
I’d spread out whatever you need to add at the seams evenly. Makes the math and adjusting the corresponding pieces easy
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Got it! But would you continue the line already patterned? Or essentially make a flap?
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Hmmm I’m not sure that I’m picturing what you’re saying with a flap.
@Ckni27 Does this make it clearer? 
Yellow is flap. Goal is to add belly room. I’m thinking flap is silly after all.
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Is it double breasted? I can’t remember how the front closure works. If it were me and I needed to add to the waist, I would spread that out over all the seams all the way around. You can taper it up if you only need that width at the bottom.
Spreading it out over all the seams keeps the proportions of the pattern true to their original shape
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Yy double breasted.
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I’m having a case of the woes about this mock frock ya’ll. The amount of work I bit off is finally biting back.
I need to make a mockup of the front panel out of a sheet to confirm my alterations work. A mock up for the mock up.
@__@;;
I know it will be worth it. I’m just in the doldrums.
Good thing I named my man(nequin) Jack Aubrey. If anyone can pilot me out of troubled waters it’s Lucky Jack (literally no one else will get this reference but that’s okay).
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Ahh I have been there. I get attached to trying to make wearable muslins that I don’t want to do weird alterations or things that might not work on them and then end up with a mock up of the mock up of the mock up. Sometimes I have to take a deep breath and remind myself to stop the insanity and go ahead and potentially screw up the mock up, that’s what it’s there for.
If you wanna do a video call to troubleshoot your pattern I’m happy to do that if it would help! Also just to see you and the kitty helpers and ask them why they aren’t helping you Cinderella style.
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You are incredible 
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New project: I’d like to mend my childhood quilt.
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Aw what a great thing! :3
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I would replace them by sewing a new square directly over the top, maybe cutting out a bit of the messy broken areas to neaten it up.
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Perfect! Will do! I had a pile of fabric squares around here somewhere just for it, too…
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Well kids, despite my secret hope I am not a sewing prodigy. I spent today after work futzing around with the pattern alterations I made and came to the conclusion that despite my attempts it wasn’t quite working. I couldn’t get the arm and shoulder to fit right after all my changes to the armscye.
I’m strongly considering making the coat to pattern even though this feels very much like giving up on my hopes of having a tailored jacket. This was a very large project to bite off as a beginner and it is showing. Trying not to be demoralized as at the end of the day I got a lot of practice on how to work the pattern and in the end the real version will be, if nothing else, a coat.
In better news here is a picture of a helper I had today.
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Wait wait don’t get demoralized! You can still make it as the pattern says and then tailor the finished garment. You’ll know how it was constructed and therefore have a better understanding of how to modify it.
That doesn’t help you to have it include any full design changes, but it’s a middle path toward learning how to do them. I used to do it a lot because I was tired of getting halfway through a pattern and then feeling like it was so messed up from my changes that I had to give up.
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