I'm finally getting round to thinking about this.
I plan to use Vogue 9212
https://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v9212This is a pattern for a fitted, lined jacket. I have a river of tweed, nay a Cairngormsful of tweed so this will be a good way of using up some of my tweed mountain. I have a very tasty piece of mid-blue tartan Harris tweed but it's only 1.3m so nowhere near enough for a whole jacket. I've also got 2m of a plain blue tweed which is a very close match to the tartan. The plain piece was sold to me online as Harris tweed but I'm sure it isn't - it's much softer - but at £12 pm it was way too cheap to be Harris tweed anyway. The jacket pattern is in sections so I'll make the centre front and back panels in the tartan and also, I hope, the peplum bit and maybe the collar. Facings can be in the plain tweed leaving the maximum amount of tartan visible. I'll use large snap fasteners as in the pattern. I've got some tartan lining which I obtained for the princely sum of £1pm from Edgeley Fabrics in Stockport.
Jacket no. 2 will be in a back and white Donegal tweed (it's a Magee tweed). I see I'm unintentionally doing a Celtic connections here! I'm planning to use some chunky black toggles I got from a local charity shop and some leather thongs to make button loops. So I should get quite a different looks from Jacket no. 1
Jacket no. 3 won't be a jacket. Instead I'm using the same patterns to make a tunic. I'm using a fairly drapey viscose (see below) and omitting the linings and only using a very lightweight interfacing so let's see if this works. I'll use buttons and buttonholes on this one. I'm going to do this version first so it can act as a toile for the more time-consuming and fabric-costly jackets. If the pattern doesn't work for me I'll stop here. I have to ease the pattern out quite a bit round the tum (ahem) and across the back and at the top of the sleeves. I've seen a youtube video from Vogue and have forensically inspected reviews on patternreview. People seem to have a problem with the peplum lining so I'll need to watch out for that.
I'm going to have to step on the gas to get all this done in the time but I'll enjoy the challenge.