A Jacket
I wanted a jacket to cover the teal “tank” shirt to take on our upcoming vacation trip. Paul and I will be (gulp and gasp!!! Imagine it?) going out to a dinner, a NICE dinner, with NO kids…for maybe the second time since Joshua was born almost 13 years ago (and NO, I am not exaggerating…we don’t have any relatives who can help us, and babysitters are too spendy a splurge for us). I bought the yarn at Maine-ly Sewing on sale, and decided to make a sewn jacket. Here it is:
I was initially going to lay the yarn out on water-soluble stabilizer only, but it just wasn’t working, so added a layer of black tulle. If we had had a decent fabric store nearby, I would have used a black or teal sheer, but the nearest one was two hours away, and time was short. So I used the tulle, water soluble stabilizer (think saran wrap that dissolves), spray baste and pins and created the jacket fabric from tulle and ribbon yarn.
Then I made the jacket—the body is all one piece, with only shoulder seams (covered with a layer of ribbon so it looks continuous). The sleeves are set in, and I used a piece of the ribbon-yarn to “wrap” the seam allowance and create a finished edge. Finally, I sewed two lengths of ribbon yarn together to make a “binding” for the edge, which I sewed around the sleeve hems and the opening/bottom hem of the jacket.
Best of all, it packs down to nearly nothing!
August 17th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Way cool Sarah
Welcome home!
August 17th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Wow, Sarah! It fits you beautifully! Great job.
August 17th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
That is so classy and beautify and arty. I LOVE it! Plus, you look so trim!