Jacket is Done! Happy dance!!!

Everything is done, and now I also have the pleasure of a proven jacket pattern that fits my daughter well.
Additionally, I can sew more collars any time I want. She still wants one in burgundy fake fur - where in the world I'll find such a fur, I don't know.
Here are the pics.
The front (looks wide because it's got the thick lining, and because I stuffed a dress up around the waist.

 The back - the fur looks really good.

 Details of the wrist cuff - I designed and embroidered a cuff because the pattern was too short in the arms.

 The lining, quilted by me, plus a zipper pocket.

 With the removable collar. There are buttons underneath the small collar so the large collar/capelet can be removed or changed.

keeping busy on the jacket

Since I couldn't find any appropriate padded lining, I decided to quilt my own.
Here are a couple of pictures. I used a leaf decorative stitch alternating with a straight stitch. I would have done more, but I just need to get this done.
The padding is just a polyester batting, but it should be nice and warm. From these pieces I have to cut the lining pattern pieces, then sew them together. Good that I have a walking foot. Also good that I could stitch 1000 stitches per minute - I really had the Bernina going full throttle tonight!

I still got it, baby

I haven't sewn a jacket in over a decade, but I still got the basics. Here's the jacket I'm working on for Dear Daughter. She's requested a fake fur dalmatian lined jacket with a red fur collar. So far I've got the shell assembled, and it's ready to have a fitting. We're about to leave for Bochum so we'll get to do the fitting today. There's a small black-lined collar attached that will support the fur collar when I've got that done. With a little luck, I'll be able to attach the fur collar with buttons, so I can embroider and quilt some other collars that she can change when she likes.

Among the techniques I've still got:

• How to attach the inner and outer calendar
• How to ease a princess seam
• How to ease a sleeve cap
• How to tuck the sleeve into the jacket to baste
• How to baste a sleeve in properly (the left sleeve of the jacket)
• How to baste a sleeve in crooked and gathered in the wrong places (the right sleeve of the jacket)

Oh well, that's why frog-stitching exists.

Happy Day

Glorious, glorious day!
Dear Daughter has finally been admitted to the University!
She will be studying Archaeology and Art history, which is a good starting place to decide what kind of career she wants to build. A second focus she's considering is in the realm of politics. Not to be a politician, to be sure, but rather to make governments work better for their citizens.
just as good news: this university stopped requiring the Studienbeitrag (study fees) last semester. So now, instead of paying Euro 480 per semester (that's total, for you not familiar with the German university system), she pays ZERO.
Zero.
Hard for an American to understand.
If she were admitted to the public university I studied at, Purdue University, she would pay $4,736 per semester. Ironically enough, 10 times what the fees would have been, had the German university not cancelled even those.
She does have to pay Eur 250 per semester for social fees, which cover her miscellaneous costs, but that includes a state-wide train ticket!

My design inspiration

The picture I'll use for the summer challenge

Over the years...

All grown up...

Expressing herself...

 And today...