I use medical tracing paper that I got on a huge roll.
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I’m able to see the pattern below 
so the paper is on top of the pattern 
Also my fabric scissors arrived!!
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Oh, yeah. This is why I’m still doing most of my machine sewing on the Iron Lady.
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HOKAY. Today was cutting out of things day!
Got my patterns traced and cut and also got alllllll the fabric cut out. I am a beast! 
Gaze upon my proof!
Pictured:
Materials for the mock up of the frock coat. Cotton canvas and a green sheet for the lining.
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I see why you got so much done so fast. All those helping paws
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I had to kick them out for most of the cutting. 
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My baby boy cat INSISTS on sticking his face all over the end of my cutting tools!
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Got all my seam lines transferred onto the cut outs. Couldn’t think of a better way to do it besides putting charcoal on the underside of the paper and then tracing over the paper to leave the charcoal behind in a line, and then using pencil to make the lines fast.
Now I’m being lazy instead of starting. 
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Curmudgeon alert: I possess two sewing machines with a rotating shuttle, one made about 1915 and one made sometime in the 1960s. One of these has a mechanism of articulated brass levers to rotate the shuttle. The other one has a shitty little rubberized belt on – get this – plastic freaking gears. Guess which one of the two still works? In other words, I have officially figured out what’s wrong with my newer machine…
Figure 1: stupid plastic gears that I’m going to have to replace if I don’t just throw the damn thing out
Figure 2: Steampunk AF, and it still works, over a century later.
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It looks SO BOSS in addition to functioning!
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Yep. The only reason the green one got to come to my house at all is that I foolishly thought I would be getting something that can do a zigzag stitch. It could, when the stupid plastic gears were brand new.
Excuse me while I go sew my stretchy fabric face shield by hand…
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Meanwhile may I present my new friend. Just padded out the gut with shop rags. Still need to give him hips and a booty.
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Wow, cool! I had a dressmakers form that I inherited for quite a few years, but I finally gave it away because it was a lot bigger than me. Now, on the other hand, it’s probably not bigger than me… 
Are you using it for The Coat?
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Yesss!! This is the plan :)))
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I despise plastic gears.
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The part that broke (or more accurately desintegrated) in my 50 years old sewing machine? Yes, a plastic gear 
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Ugggh to plastic parts, forever the worst. My Viking machine is a freaking beast, all metal, weighs a ton, but it always worked. My industrial is the same.
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Did you name him? Mine is Marie Antoinette because of the whole headless thing 
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LOOL
I’m not 100% yet but I’m thinking Jack Aubrey, from the book series Master and Commander. After all, it’s his era that this inaugural coat is from…
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Did you ever figure out your green machine’s model number? Mine (also green) is from the same era, and while I haven’t entirely given up on it, it may be toast. The spindle only rotates about 1/3 of the times it should, so it may be that I know where there are some spare parts for yours…
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