Pattern Difficulty: Challenging

• For the jacket body: medium to heavyweight suitings or lightweight coatings with surface texture such as wool melton, wool flannel, crepe and tweed. Velvet, medium-heavy weight cotton, seersucker and linen may also be used. Please note: tightly woven, smooth surfaced suitings like wool gabardine are not recommended since they can be difficult to fuse using an iron.
• For the lining: rayon bemberg, charmeuse, crepe de chine, silky cottons like voile
• For the pockets: sturdy cotton like shirting, quilting cotton or muslin (1/4 yd / .25m)

Yardage (sizes 0-20) - 45inch / 1.14 m wide

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How Closet Core Ranks Pattern Difficulty

We firmly believe that anyone can sew anything with patience and perseverance, but sometimes it helps to understand how time-consuming or challenging a pattern will be to sew. Here's how we rate the difficulty of our patterns:

Beginner (⭑): Appropriate for a true beginner with simple style lines and details, quick to sew with no closures.

Confident Beginner (⭑⭑):  Achievable for beginners who are willing to learn a new skill, may include more design features and techniques (ie. zippers, buttons, facings, etc). Relatively quick to sew.

Intermediate (⭑⭑⭑): More details and style lines, may include interesting details like a zipper fly or topstitching, projects can take 6+ hours to sew.

Advanced (⭑⭑⭑⭑): Still achievable for most sewists, but patterns will include more pieces and more details, and can take 8+ hours to sew.

Challenging (⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑): Complex, skill heavy projects like tailoring and bra-making. Again, achievable for most sewists but be prepared to spend 10+ hours on these types of projects.