 Hello and welcome to part four-ish of our McColl's 8-1-2-1 Sew Along. We're making this super cute moto jacket together. If you're just now joining us, you've missed a lot. I hate to break it to you, but I've got a whole bunch of links in the description box that will take you back to all the other videos in this sew along so far so that you can get caught up. For everyone else, we are going to be working through the Sew Along workbook. This workbook is 100% free. It's a free download to kind of help you stay organized and stay on top of the sew along as we get through everything. But today we are on Thursday's checklist, which is going to be basically all of the back, the side seams, and shoulder seams. And then at the end, we are also going to try it on for kind of like a dry run, a test fit if you will. We do not have sleeves sewn on yet, so this would be an opportunity for us to nip and tuck here and there before we get the sleeves on. It's going to be an exciting day. I cannot wait to try this little puppy on. So before we can do any of that, let's get sewing. If you're coming back and forth and not doing all of this in one sitting, I have chapters, so check those out so you don't have to like skim through the whole video to find out where you left off. You should have a pretty good idea based on the chapter. To the work table, the back is cut on the fold, so there is a definite right side. So let me mark that and then right side. Okay, see I already got confused. And then your yoke back should be interfaced. So you know what the right side and the wrong side of that should be. We are going to be stitching this along this upper edge here like so. Easy peasy, stitch right across, press open your seams unless you're top stitching, in which case again you're going to press toward the yoke and top stitch on the yoke seam. Okay, that's the back. So pretty. And now we're going to be putting on these little like, I don't know, they're calling them armhole facings. I'm kind of thinking of them as like little flanges. I don't know. They're going to look really cool once we get them sewn on. But that is piece number 13. So grab that. All right, so piece number 13 is lining that should be interfaced. So you are going to pin this onto the armhole of the back. And we're going to make sure that the one that has a little notchy doodad is at the bottom. So it goes like this, where the flat end is at your shoulder. And that should match up with your shoulder notch. And then there's a couple of notches right here as well. Those get matched up with the double notch on your back armhole, like so. And then also, there's a notch in this little area too. All of that gets matched up. So you were going to sew this down all along this back arm side. All right, we're going to be trimming this seam allowance. And anytime I'm trimming a seam allowance on a curve, I like to use pinking shears because it kind of acts as a little bit of like clipping curves and trimming at the same time because, you know, it does little zigzags. So we will just do that. And then we're going to turn this facing toward the inside, the wrong side of our back piece. So you turn this to the wrong side, like so. And then you were going to top stitch. If you're top stitching, you're going to top stitch this edge here. I am not top stitching. So instead, I'm going to understitch. And then that is what will keep it nice and rolled pretty to the inside. Okay, so that's the back. We're on step number 27 now, where we are going to take the back arm hole band, which is piece number 14. This guy here, there is a right side and a wrong side. So again, I'm going to mark those right sides together. Just trying to stay consistent with the sides that I mark as the right, just in case there's any variation that's a little bit naked to the eye. Sometimes when you sew it together, you're like, it's so glaringly obvious, but you wouldn't, you couldn't tell. Okay, so we're going to pin this on the inside. We are going to pin these in the same fashion, where the little notched end goes toward the bottom, but we're sewing the outer edges together. So if you laid it on your pattern piece like this, the inner edge is like, well, that's not matching up. Again, I messed up. No, you didn't. You just got to move it over to the outside edge. And that is going to match up perfectly with the little facing piece that you just made. Okay, and when you get back to your table, this is what you are going to have, right? Where you have basted these down or basted these together and the back is free. Literally just pick this entire thing up and turn it over like so. This is how it should look. I am obsessed. Okay, so this is like free. You see how this just kind of comes open like an envelope? We don't want that. So keep that nice and tucked in. And then we are going to baste to hold it in place along the shoulder seam and along the side seam where they overlap. And then while we're at our machines, go ahead and just stay stitch all the way down to the bottom of the back piece. And then we're going to be attaching the back band in the same fashion that we attached the front bands, except we're using pattern piece 15, which is this guy here. Mark this right side. And this gets placed right sides together, matching up the notches, and then this will get pressed down like so. Again, following all the top stitching that you want, if you want this to be top stitched, it gets top stitched on the band. All right, how cool is this looking? I love this little detail here. Once we get our sleeves sewn on, this is just going to be so neat and it's going to provide just the littlest bit of ease whenever you're wearing it, I think. We'll see. I've never done this before, so cool. But we should be on step number 32, pinning the back to the front at the side back edges. So fun. It's coming together, right? We're moving right along. We've almost got something that looks like a jacket. So find all the right sides of everything and these side edges are what is getting sewn together. So this little curved thing gets sewn to this curved edge here and then the same for the other side. Yeah, then the same for the other side and then we're also sewing our shoulder seams. So you're going to come up here and you're going to stitch that as well. And then that is going to be it for today. So let me do all that. Come back, show you what it looks like or what mine looks like real quick. I want to point out that the band seams do not match up and that is intentional. If you look at the illustration on step number 32, you can see that they are not completely lined up. They're off by about an inch, I think. So just don't worry if they don't match up. They're not supposed to. You didn't do anything wrong. All right. So here is where we've landed at the end of our second day together. Super, super cute. I'm so proud. I hope you are proud too. At this point, you can do a quick little try on. You do not have a ton of wiggle room in terms of where you can adjust width-wise. You can adjust what we just sewed, that back seam that we just sewed. You should have about half an inch per seam allowance to play with. So that's an inch on the left and an inch on the right. It adds up, guys. So you could add in a few more inches if you needed to in the width. And then in the length, you really can only adjust that along the shoulder seams and the yoke seams. But remember, we have our collar. So you've already cut out your collar. Adjusting the length here now is going to pose some problems. Your collar is not going to fit. So you'd have to recut that. But you do have options if you're wanting it to be a little bit longer or wider. All right. So we're getting there, right? We're making headway on this. So exciting. We really only have a couple more days of sewing left. But it's going to be their heavy sewing days. There's a lot to do. The sleeve is labor-intensive. The collar is labor-intensive. But we are going to get there. And hopefully you are all just really excited and ramped up based on what you were able to see from your little dry fit. Come back tomorrow. We'll be going through Friday's checklist. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'll see you then.