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Ok, so, I'm working on a jacket to match the skirt I made.

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The jacket will be made out of the same fabric and it'll be pretty simple- just a front and back, no collar, shaped with darts. I'll make black frog closures that will go down to about hip length. The jacket will be a little shorter than the skirt, so a couple inches shy of knee length on me so if I wear both together the skirt will peek out.

Anyway, the conundrum here is whether or not I want to interline the jacket with flannel/fleece/something warm. It won't be very warm if it's just brocade and lining, so it would be a summer jacket. If I do the interlining it would be more of a spring/fall thing, but I already have a hot pink velvet spring/fall jacket, so do I really need two eye-smarting pink jackets for the same season? Not to mention I don't have *any* nice summer jackets at all.

I have some time before I need to make up my mind because I ran out of tracing paper, which I absolutely need to draft patterns and I still need to draft the back. I also have to buy fabric to make a mock-up, to make sure the pattern works. I'm not drafting it totally from scratch; I'm using the tailcoat pattern and I'm using the pattern for the skirt as a guide to lengthen it. But I'm not really confident enough in my pattern-drafting abilities to experiment on the nice fabric.

The other issue with interlining it is I should probably make the whole thing a size bigger, since it'll be thicker. And while that's not a huge pain in the ass it's still sort of annoying.

So, any thoughts?

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Six Degrees of Hitler Meme, stolen from ironychan:

Click "Random Article" on Wikipedia's main page and by only navigating via hyperlinks in whatever articles you may venture through, make your way to Adolf's article. Then post how many clicks it took you to get there. Try to avoid the 'easy' route of clicking on country names.

1. Alcarràs
2. Municipality
3. Political Science
4. Roman Republic
5. Jewish-Roman Wars
6. Jews
7. Adolf Hitler

Ok, it took a little more than six, but that's mostly because I didn't want to copy ironychan and do it through political parties or be lame and do it by country.