Kilt jacket or bust!

[Cowher]

This is a Perry Ellis jacket (non-Harris). Also what do you mean by topstitch?

From what I can see, you're well on your way to having a nice kilt jacket. Make sure you fold the outer jacket material (the shell) up and press the dickens out of it before you start sewing the lining to it. It wouldn't hurt to topstitch it about 1/4" from the hem, too.

Is this a Harris tweed jacket, or a non-Harris?

[Whidbey78]

I did my first one by hand with hidden stitches. Hadn't sewn since high school home ec class. Take your time and it will be good. You already got past the part that I find difficult...laying ot the cut line, especially around the sporran cutout. Looks like its spot on to me!

[sydnie7]

This is a Perry Ellis jacket (non-Harris). Also what do you mean by topstitch?

Topstitching is a lot like the basting that you have already done -- but it's even, neat, and meant to be left in place/visible on the finished product. It is a useful method to keep lapels and other jacket edges from rolling outward (exposing the seamline, facing, and other inner parts). However, you don't usually see it on a jacket hemline -- usually just down the center front and around the bottom curve, ending where the front facings end.

I think if you do as has already been suggested, pressing and steaming the edges well, you won't need a topstitch to "convince" them.