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In preparation for sewing a jacket, I've been searching for a tutorial to make The Ultimate Jacket Pocket (in my personal opinion).

I love the dual-entry cargo pockets on my favourite jackets. They have a flap to shed rain/snow, some form of shaping or bellows to allow for pocket expansion, and a separate compartment accessed from the side, often for warming one's hands:

I've heard they're called dual-entry cargo pockets.

I found a YouTube tutorial by Natalia Dedios for such a pocket.

Being a beginner sewist myself, there were some parts she breezed through that I would've appreciated more elaboration on. But I wrote down the instructions as I understood them (see end of post), and then set about sewing it.

It turned out ok.

I'm really not a fan of how she attaches the lining to the jacket (5:33). It's hard to sew it down at that point, and if the exterior fabric has any thickness or stiffness to speak of, it'll get in the way (I learned, the next time I sewed this pocket).

The bartacks were also.... suboptimal. It worked fine on this muslin and flannel, but a thicker exterior pocket will make this difficult.

On the closed side (not the side with the second entry), I'm not sure if I folded the gusset incorrectly, or if I should've pushed the gusset out of the way before sewing the bartack but didn't. But the bartack trapped both the side and bottom portion of gusset, reducing the pocket's expansion ability.

The inside of the top-entry pocket.

I'm not a big fan of how the pocket exterior is simply folded over with the (overlocked / zig-zagged) raw edge right there. In the future, I might fold this raw edge away first.

Just showing off the pocket at a functional position:

I didn't place the pocket flap well, so it's off-centre. But in hindsight, I think making the flap only 1/8" wider is insufficient to hide misalignments. So I'd make the flap wider in the future.

A seam allowance of 1/4" was quite tight for my sewing abilities, so in the future I'll use an SA of 3/8".

Conclusions:

I'm glad I sewed a practice pocket. I think there's a lot to be improved upon however.

I ended up using this type of pocket on my jacket, and ran into some difficulties with the thicker fabric.

If I had to assign a star-rating to this tutorial, I'd rate it 3/5, with key issues in both clarity of instruction, and the design itself; but overall, not-bad.

Dual Entry Cargo Pocket Tutorial

Text instructions by me, based on YouTube tutorial by Natalia Dedios

I use origami folding terminology (valley and mountain fold) to indicate whether the crease is closer to you (mountain) or farther away (valley).

Draft the Pattern Pieces:

Pocket Exterior (cut 1 per pocket, exterior fabric) 1. Draw a rectangle 7" x 9+1/2" 2. Add 1/4" SA all around

Pocket Flap (cut 2 per pocket, exterior fabric) 1. Draw a rectangle: width: 7+1/8" height: 2+1/2" tall 2. From the horizontal centre, draw a point that is 1/2" past the rectangle. Connect the lower two corners of the rectangle to this new point, to draw a pentagon. 3. Add 1/4" SA all around

Pocket bag lining (cut 1 per pocket, lining fabric) 1. Draw a retangle 7" x8" 2. Add 1/4" SA all around

Side gusset (cut 1 per pocket, exterior fabric) 1. Draw a rectangle 1+1/2" x 15" 2. Add 1/4" SA all around

Sewing Instructions:

Cut fabric pieces.

Prepare pieces:

Pocket exterior: overlock (or zig-zag stitch) all around

Pocket lining: overlock 2 continuous sides (long+short): the non-hand-entry side, and bottom (ie: the sides that touch the gusset)

Side gusset: overlock on the long edges. Fold and press the short ends 1/4" from edge, WS together (to hide the raw edges).

Fold the pocket exterior:

Lay RS up, portrait orientation

Mark a line, 1 1/2" from the top short edge (like tracing the lining on the exterior, same size)

Valley-fold on the line (this will become the pocket top opening)

Lay the lining RS together with the exterior: raw edges face the pocket top (folded exterior) and side-entry.

Valley-fold the lining 1/4" from the top (this folded edge will be the pocket top, and get edge-stitched to the jacket later)

Sew on the side-entry side, at 1/4" SA. Turn RS out, and press.

Top stitch 2 rows: edge-stitch and 1/4", from the sewn edge.

Sew the gusset:

Lay gusset strip RS together with pocket piece, along the non-entry side, toward the pocket bottom; mitre at corner.

Ensure the gusset strip starts at the top of the pocket, and ends at the edge of the pocket.

Sew together with 1/4" SA, pivoting at corner.

Press SA toward centre of pocket.

Top-stitch the pocket face only (edge stitch, then 1/4") (don't sew the gusset to the pocket face, push the gusset so it stands like a fence, if needed).

Accordion-fold the gusset to lay flat: crease 1/4" from long edge (so the overlocked edge will be hidden against the jacket face), crease down the centre in the opposite direction (accordion), crease along the pocket face. Press.

Sew pocket flap:

RS together, sew on 3 sides (left, roof, right) with 1/4" SA (leave unworked the side that will attach to the jacket body)

Clip corners, turn right side out, poke corners, press.

Topstitch (edge, and optional 1/4" SA)

Pin pocket to jacket body.

Sew (edge stitch) the gusset (gusset only) to the jacket body.

Reinforce bottom two corners: bartack the two corners of the pocket bottom, diagonally toward the centre, about 3/4" (connect the two rows of topstitching)

Reinforce the hand entry: sew a rectangle at the bottom of the hand entry (about 1-2 inches tall, 1/4" wide)

Sew lining to jacket:

Edge stitch the lining to the jacket. This is the edge where the lining was folded.

Reinforce the hand entry: sew a rectangle at the top of the hand entry (about 1" tall, 1/4" wide)

Repeat on the other top corner.

Sew flap to jacket:

Position the raw edge 1/4" above pocket top opening.

Sew to jacket with 1/4" SA.

Fold flap down, press.

Topstitch the flap with two rows (edge + 1/4" SA)

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