The Marte coat also works well as a short jacket. The jacket in the photo also has a split pocket (instructions from a previous blog post).
1. Measure your preferred finished length of the jacket down from the center of your shoulder.
2. Mark the length on the pattern, down from the center of the shoulder (A) and measure the length from the mark and down to the fold line at the bottom, to find out how much you need to take off from the length ( B).
3. Start at the lengthen/shorten line on the pattern and draw in the amount you want to remove with a parallel line above the lengthen/shorten line. The gray area illustrated is the part that will be removed from the pattern. Cut along one of the lines. Remove the same amount from the back piece.
4. Place the two lines on top of each other, to remove the extra amount from the pattern. Align at center front/center back. The sides will now be slightly uneven. Draw new side lines from the fold line up to the armhole at the front and back.
Good luck! Feel free to share the result on Instagram with #martecoat :)
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Pattern change: Marte jacket
The Marte coat is also great as a short jacket. The example in the picture has also been given a split pocket (see explanation in separate post).
1. Measure the desired finished length of the jacket down from the shoulder.
2. Mark the length of the jacket down from the middle of the shoulder on the pattern (A). Measure the length from the mark down to the bottom fold line (B), to determine how much to remove from the length.
3. Start at the lengthen/shorten line on the pattern and mark the amount to remove as a parallel line above the lengthen/shorten line. The gray area in the illustration shows what is to be removed from the pattern . Cut along one line. Remove the same amount from the back of the pattern.
4. Place the two lines on top of each other to "close" and remove the extra length from the pattern. Place the pieces edge-to-edge in the middle of the front/middle of the back. The sides will now be uneven. Draw new side lines from the bottom fold line to the bottom of the armhole.
Good luck! Feel free to share the result on Instagram under #martecoat :)