Self Custom Made Red Satin Blazer (part 3)

You probably think this is the final part and I finished the blazer? Well, you are totally wrong :-D. I wish I was finished today! So many things still need to be done before I could start sewing. This is professional work, so no speeding and I can tell you that all fashion designers demand professional work.

The blazer need some fusible interfacing. That is a thin material with glue dots at the back that you iron on the wrong side of the fabric to give the fabric more stiffness. All fashion designers demand their blazers and coats to have fusible interfacings. It just looks so much nicer.

Here you see very clearly the glue dots on the back of the fusible interfacing. Fusible interfacings are in different types, heavy, thin, stiff and you have fusible interfacing special for seams.

Unfortunately I couldn't iron the wrinkled fusible interfacing because it has glue dots at the back. So I had to iron with my hands. So these are the pieces I needed to use for the blazer. The front part of the blazer will be full of the fusible interfacing. Then the arm holes of the back and partly of the back. Then I need to use interfacing for the seams too.

I used a stiffer interfacing material for the front parts.

The back gets a much softer interfacing. Boy, that was a lot of work. It took me around 1,5 hour in total, cutting the interfacing and ironing them. The stiffer interfacing just didn't stick on the fabric as quick as I wanted, so I had to put the iron much longer on the fabric. Probably you think, why not just turn the iron hotter? Well, It would probably burn the fabric. In factories they have big machines, so everything would be done quicker. The machines have a heating bed on the upper and lower part and you just need to press it and it's done. SO doing it from home takes much longer.

Sewing curves is a challenge. I had to use many pins.

Here you see the blazer from the inside. Your blazer looks like this too.

After I sewed the front with the back I had to open the seams by ironing them.

Meet Adjustable Diana, she has the same measurement like me. She is a Junior because my measurements matches a child's hahahhaha! As you can see Diana fits the blazer.

Here you see the back of the blazer. You see the curves I was mentioning. Sewing anything curvy is a real challenge.

Luckely I have a sleeve ironing board. So I sewed the sleeves that existed of an upper and lower sleeve.

Then I needed to open the seams of the sleeves. So that is why I needed the sleeve ironing board.

The sleeves are done.

I still need to do the upper and lower collar. Then I need to do the lining, connecting the sleeves which is a challenge because as I mentioned before, sewing anything curvy is a challenge and I need to stitch the blazer together. Oh, I also need to make a button hole and stitch the button on the blazer and as finishing touch ironing the entire blazer and hoping it will fit me good enough.