Finally back up and cutting again. Got a jeans jacket underway, actually 2 but this seems to be simpler cos it doesn't need me to work out where it needs to be reinforced.

I'm needing to lay out the pieces of the source jacket and draw 5mm outlines around them to get up to the seam allowance I am comfortable with. the source jacket was apparently done on an overlocker and only has 1cm wide seam allowances which means attempting to do the flat fell seam I normally do would be a non starter. Way too fiddly.

I'm using the Strawberry Thief  William Morris fabric I was originally going to make a pair of jeans from. This was a pretty expensive fabric, selling by the half metre which meant that I was thinking I'd do another trial run experiment with the paisley babycord before I started it in this fabric.
It then transpired that using babycord had its own problems or so I believe, not having actually completed the thing. But I was wondering if the yokes  in the lighter fabric could take the  weight of the rest of the structure and whatever I was going to put in its pockets. So I think I need to work out what needs reinforcing which will take longer. & with whatever double layers it will no longer be the light jacket that was going to be as summer specific. Or so I hope.
This  Strawberry Thief is a drill fabric so I think it should be a lot more robust than the babycord.

So far I have managed to create this jacket in a cerise 8 wale cord that I bought last year. I was intending to make some kind if jacket out of it but I think I was thinking more of something based on the leather bike jackets I tend to wear in the colder months.
The jacket here is worn with a pair of jeans I made from a cotton -viscose curtaining material. I think they look ok but I think the fabric in general has more of a tendency to bag than others that I've used.  I have some of this stuff in a different colour that I'm thinking of making a jacket from. I think I bought it thinking I'd make a jeans jacket and then saw Poldark on tv so have been thinking about trying one of that eras frock coats in it.

The hat here is one that came from a renaissance pattern package. It's made in a fabric called Pizarro Spice which is also a cotton viscose but done in a more tapestry style with a couple of distinctive layers and woven or embroidered pattern instead of printed. The top of the brim is the back of the fabric the top section is made of. The bottom is in a printed cotton curtain material. It is lined with a cotton twill that I got as a curtain lining. Very useful fabric so I might buy some new for various uses..
 The shirt is shown on the previous entry and is an African Waxed cotton, here made in a Folkwear frontier style, so it's a bit of a cowboy shirt.
 Boots are a pair of engineer boots I got mailorder about 12 years ago. They're still going but I need to take better care of them and also get rid of the white residue from the last time i rubbed wax into them.

This is a cotton linen fabric that I've been looking at and thinking God I'd love to make a jeans jacket out of . I'm not sure now that it's heading out of the season. But seems to be crying out to be done.
pattern repeat is 24.5cm if that's any guide.