Turned up the lapel lining piece and pressed it into place. Notice that my pins are way out of the work area -- they are holding the various jacket layers together, but leave room for work and iron.


Folded, pressed, and trimmed the back, straight edge of jacket. I've opened up the side seams for vents, will make the vents a little deeper in my next steps.


So far I've just hacked off a few inches from bottom of jacket's body lining. Original jacket had a really nice design with some "give" built into the bottom edge of lining, yet secured so it would never droop and show below the outer hem. I'll probably try to recreate some version of that, but first I need to stitch up the front curves -- which means getting away from this computer for a while -- and feeding Bob some dinner.

See you all later!