As promised on another thread, here are pics of my first jacket conversion. I picked this brown cotton jacket up on sale at JCPenney a while ago. It originally had a center vent, but i closed that and opened up some side vents in addition to shortening it and cutting the front away for the sporran. The cutaway isn't as smooth as I'd like it to be, but it does the job and, honestly, no one around here would notice. I also didn't put the pockets back on. I kind of like it the way it is.

What I learned doing this will be very helpful the next time I decide to do one of these.