Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - Sweatshirt Jacket





After showing the purse I made for my mom's birthday and everyone liking the fabric, I thought I would show you why I bought the fabric in the first placed. I didn't have any pictures, so I took some tonight. I kind of forgot to put it in my quilt journal. Now I have pictures to put in it. I am usually really good about putting all my quilts in the journal, but I guess I just kind of by passed this one. I made this back in March when I took a vacation between quarters and spent 3 days at my parents ranch, sewing with my mom. This is one of the classes she regularly teaches at the Sewing Center. You take a sweatshirt, take all the seams out, spray baste fabric to it, quilt fabric to the wrong side, so that the normal outside becomes the inside, cut around the sweatshirt to get the pattern back and then serge all the seams back together and put bias binding on the sleeves and around the jacket part. I used two heart buttons to hold mine together. I wear it to a lot of quilting events, even if just for warmth in cold rooms. It's soooo comfy! This is the front in the first picture and the back in the other. You can see that the sleeves are a coordinating print. This jacket pattern works well for large prints and border prints.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by luv2quilt
That is just SO awesome!!!
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Posted by Dawnmarie
Great jacket and fabric.
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Posted by Cre8tiveQuilter
That is sooo neat! And I'm not a quilted clothing person. This I could see wearing. I SOOOO need to take a picture of my mom's sewing sweatshirt. Mike wants to burn it because she's worn it for so many year and it's "sew" worn out. Me, I just look at it and it reminds me of her. =)
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Posted by CountryQuilter
I love that, it is beautiful. Kristie
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Posted by Trina
I really like that!! Like Jen, I am not much on quilted clothing, but that I would wear! I need one in our school colors to wear to the football games!!.......oh no, my "to do someday" list just got bigger....LOL
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by jillquilts
That is so cute! I had friends who made their jackets using the St Jude's fabrics from Hancock's. They had trouble trying to figure out how to seew them, but they looked awesome, too!
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by 51050
That's really cute! Rhoda
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Posted by lori
Great job love the fabric .
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by SewAndSnip
Oh I just love it. It's definetly calling out my name. Cindy
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