Having fixated the leap layers securely, they need to be carefully ironed into flat folds without the stitching pressing through. 

Having to do this on the fabric’s right side there is little room for correction, which gives these Red Shirt sleeves another batch of bastework to be done on them.

Iron-on interfacing applied to gain a certain roll.

With its silk pieces assembled in baste, the Red Shirt construction is readily subjected to the test in order to check final adjustments to the fit, and when found faultless, the performed corrections are echoed onto the patterns so the process can move onwards to cutting corresponding pieces of lining, facing and interfacing.

Carefully securing leap-layers for the Red Shirt.