Here are some WIP photos of Bob's new vest. I hope to have it done for next weekend's formal dinner with our sports car club, but if that doesn't happen it will surely see the light of. . . night?. . . at our clan dinner dance in early March.

My plans, in an earlier thread, went somewhat awry when I realized I hadn't allowed for the shorter version of vest required for kilting So, within the available real estate, here is the bias cut layout I ended up with.



These pieces have a seam allowance all around, when that's taken up I believe the two white stripes at the "points" of hem will align with two vertical white stripes on front apron. We'll see.

This pattern has a collar (not true lapels, just a flat collar) so I laid each front piece onto my remaining yardage to match up the collar pattern pieces.



That's the selvedge you see at lower left, then the cut-out right front of the vest laid over it and the collar pattern piece aligned with the vest front. I then carefully lifted the pattern piece at each end, folded the vest front out of the way, and pinned the pattern piece directly to the yardage.

Here's the resulting collar piece atop the vest front.