Since I still had some microsuede left over from previous projects, I decided it was time to attempt a Star Trek: The Next Generation costume. I've never made a TNG outfit before.Since I love jackets, I chose to start with Picard's, first seen in the 5th season episode "Darmok":Of course, that was the only episode that featured that version of the jacket- in all subsequent appearances in the last three seasons we saw this version, that was not leather:So that is the one I went for.Step one, the tee shirt and sharpie pattern method:Then on to paper patterns- first for a scrap material mock-up, then the real thing.Again, I'm using fusible interfacing on almost all of the microsuede pieces to give it the proper body.Putting the detail stitching stripes onto the shoulder parts:These also got a layer of stuffing to pad them a bit.It is not difficult, just very, very tedious.Then came the assembly:After that I made a lining and installed it. The last steps were the waistband and cuffs- just like the shoulders- extra padding a lots of tedious sewing.Attaching these gave me problems. I had hopped to accomplish these final steps on the overlock machine, but with all the padding, it proved too thick for my machine to handle. So I used the regular machine (And I'll have to deal with the inside edges another way.)So here it what it looks like- I haven't yet made the correct shirt or pants, so I substituted my Scotty pants & shirt for now:Thanks for looking!