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Wool beating and pocket decisions

After sewing my jacket together I ironed and shaped the seams over a tailors ham. E said I should pound the wool seam down and I was like "what the what?" I have to say I was absolutely certain this would do nothing at all but I swear that it did look different have it was beaten! It was like tenderizing a steak.

It looks like a mid-evil torture device... 

Jacket fronts, it's coming together slowly.

There was also a lengthy discussion of pockets. I was very annoyed to realize that the welt pocket in my pattern (vogue 7975) is not an actual pocket! It is just a fake sewed on embellishment, I'm very disappointed in you vogue!

Pieces for an applied pocket are included but I was really feeling it design-wise. I think I've was using a plaid pattern boucle I would have liked an applied pocket, it is after a very Channel look. Maybe on my next jacket.

E launched into a very lengthy explanation of how to make a welt pocket, draft a pattern for the needed pieces and so on, during which I was thoroughly confused. After much discussion I was so exhausted that I decided to forgo the external pockets.

However after reflecting for a week, I am going to put one pocket into the inside because I need somewhere for my passport to go when I am jet setting around the world (in my dreams) in my fantastic jacket. Or you know, plastic bags when I'm walking the dog...so I will, it seems, not manage to avoid the pocket complication.
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