Tag: Jacket
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Orville Uniform Finishing Touches and Variations
With the jacket and pants done, it’s time to wrap up the rest of your new Planetary Union fleet uniform.
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Orville Planetary Union Uniform Jacket Tutorial
Tutorial about how to follow the Planetary Union Uniform Jacket sewing pattern.
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Orville Uniform Jackets Redux
They changed the uniform jackets for the new season of The Orville. I just finished the pants and undershirt and now they change the jackets. Well, I did want to get back to the jackets anyway because there were a lot of features of the old ones that I wasn’t totally satisfied with. This is…
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Basic Sack Coat Construction
Now let’s just cut out the pattern pieces we just finished at see what the sack starts to look like when it’s put together. To finish it, to make a real, wearable piece, we still need to figure out how to cut and attach the facing and lining pieces. I think it’s really starting to…
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Diagrams 75 – 77: The Sleeve
The particularly observant may have noticed that at no point did Mr. Regal tell us how we were going to shape or cut sleeves for the sack coat that we’ve spent all this time learning how to draft and cut. If we want to have something like a finished jacket, though, we’ll want to at…
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Diagrams 4-13: Adjusting the Basic Sack Coat
Finally, we’ve created the start of a sack coat pattern using the methods found in The American Garment Cutter. From here we still have a few adjustments and alterations before we can get to part where we can actually start cutting some fabric and put it all together. This, of course, is where Regal’s advice…
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Diagrams 2 and 3: Finishing a Basic Sack Coat Pattern
There was a lot in just putting together maybe half of the lines necessary to draft a basic sack coat in Diagram 1, and it’s not done yet, we have two more diagrams to get through before we can even consider this mostly finished and there are yet more issues we’ll encounter along the way.…
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Diagram 1: The Basic Starting Block
We’ll start with the basic block that can serve as the basis for many different garments. Of course, the book doesn’t actually just reuse this block for everything, that would be too easy, but it does introduce a basic system for drafting that will be reused consistently.
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Orville Uniform Jacket Design and Construction
If you know me at all, you know that I’m absolutely crazy about The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s brilliant love-letter to the ’90’s “Star Trek” era. It’s funny, hopeful, and somehow honest with just the right mix of science fiction, social commentary, and workplace comedy . So, of course, I had to have the uniforms.
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