More pocket - inadequte lady pocket adjustment

This coat has stupid lady pockets 

the pocket I have my fingers in is TOO DAMN SMALL

I think it would have fit the tiny iPod. Too short for a pen. Maybe a chapstick?

So I unpicked the seam along the zipper (blue line in drawing) to open the lining up and pull the pocket out (purple line in drawing) to add more fabric (red line) to it, without taking apart the zipper entrance and facing on the pocket. So I can put in my tiny iPhone. Or a pen.

So none of these photos really illustrate this . Sorry. You pull the lining guts out and it's all a big fabric salad

Here's our front

The seam ripper is pointing at the seam I undid to pull the pocket out to add to the far edge.

So here is most of it pulled to the outside, through the zipper seam

The grey is the original pocket. The blue is the addition. It's attached to a big flap of fabric with a little red fabric connector bit to the lining, so the pocket stays put when you pull something out of it. I disconnected that and reconnected it when the surgery was done.

BIG FABRIC SALAD

and then I sewed the seam by the zipper back up

The after photos...

It will fit a Stacia Burrington divination card  which is standing in for my phone, but I can't take a picture of the phone in the pocket without the phone cause it's the only camera I have now.

The pocket is actually an inch or so longer than this card.

Bonus photo of stitching elastic for more pajama bottoms. More soft sheets, more soft pajams!

I am working on actual clothing, but work is getting nuts and the mending pile is easier to deal with than a new thing from scratch.

Adding inside pockets to RTW

I can't entirely explain why I wanted a mustard yellow faux leather moto jacket*, but I did and I hunted one down on eBay (after mistakenly ordering a really misidentified one and finally getting a refund).

And it's just what I wanted, except where it is not.

The back label is super itchy and made out of razor blades (or that's what it feels like), so it needs to come off the back of the neck.

 And there's no inside pocket cause lady jacket pocket b%llsh%t

So I'm going to make a pocket and put the label on that.

Yes, I've been doing this forever.

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/03/adding-pockets-to-existing-jackets.html

(which gave me a chance to fix broken photos)

It's entirely possible that I will not need this jacket forever, and I'd like to leave the tag on for size and maker ID.

I am going to use that pocket pretty hard, and I learned the hard way to just overdo this at this point, rather than have to redo it later.

I don't make a patch pocket; I make an entire pocket, front and back. Stitch that around the edge with the insides out

flip it right side out

I ironed the points out

And sorta french seamed it around the edge.

This way the bag wears out on its own merits. If the original lining is too brittle, it will tear at the new seams, but this is more likely to fail in the center of the pocket bag.

I don't have any action photos, but this is the secret sauce.  I pin the pocket to the lining and double check to make sure that I have it pinned to the lining ONLY.  And then I fold over that lining at the pocket edge, match those edges up, pin them together and zig zag over them, sewing the pocket to the lining on the sides and the top. It's worth testing to make sure the zig zag stitch will open up to flatten out that seam  (a little ridge is okay, a big one will be uncomfortable). A wide, long, reduced tension zig zag will make the best seam (and last longer).

No, the fabric doesn't match, it's from the stash, as is the zipper (an old one from Seattle Fabrics big box of 50 cent zips)

And now my Jubilee jacket* has a proper inside pocket.

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* - https://www.themarysue.com/tag/jubilee/