Now that you've got a taste of the hardest part, the rest of the jacket will be soooooo much easier!

Read all the way through now. We don't want anyone jumping to conclusions!



Lets cut some leather to fit on the inside of the cuts.
- They should be the length of the cuts plus another 1.5" (remember how we did the pockets so that the pieces went beyond the openings? we're going to do that here also... only it will be were the slit stops and converges together)
- The width should be ~1.5". We'll want about 3/8"-1/2" showing on the front, and the rest will wrap around the back (unseen from the outside)... leaving a flap. Leave the flap on the backside and do not trim. We are going to use this as extra reinforcement for our toggle laces.
- The bottom cover piece can, once again, be any shape you want. Circles of various sizes are everywhere in your house, garage, and shop.... just makes it easy... until you have to sew and keep moving the jacket under the machine ;)



Start at the split and sew up towards the neckline. Get as close as you can to the collar and neckline junctions.

TIPS:
- Your sewing through a layer of wool, laminate, liner, and 2 layers of leather. This isn't too difficult, but you may want to keep all the layers from moving around by doing a quick tack before doing the leather. You can stitch the length of the layers prior to adding leather.
- Start and finish at the top of your overlay patch and you can 2x bar-tack for strength.



This illustration shows the overlay and how it locks in the neckline leather. Notice how the leather sides overlap the bottom of the slit?

Yep, it just keeps getting easier (as he dodges yet another empty valium pill bottle).

Let's back ourselves out of this area.

and move onto some easier stuff like...
Finish up our Cuffs >

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