I love the daisy fabric in this jacket!!! When I made a quilt with it a few years ago with the Sunday Block of the Month club I bought a lot of it!!! 
The seams are so easy to cut and yes, I saved the collar and sleeve ribbing...not sure what I am going to do with it...probably toss it in a week or two. But, I have to try and find a use for it first...
This is the back piece all whittled down to just a back in all of it's glory, where once it had been a part of a man's sweatshirt proudly hanging in the Walmart! Do you know how hard it is to find a sweatshirt after the Christmas season is over???
This is the back piece all whittled down to just a back in all of it's glory, where once it had been a part of a man's sweatshirt proudly hanging in the Walmart! Do you know how hard it is to find a sweatshirt after the Christmas season is over???
So here we have two sleeves and a back piece all cut out. They looked huge to me and I guestioned the sanity of buying a sweatshirt two sizes too large to start out with...Drats...where is my picture of the two sleeves???
The two front pieces! The teacher tells us to notice there is a front right and a front left...don't forget that one little fact along the way, ok! Keep in mind you will be wearing this and what loud stipes will do to your figure! :0
The two front pieces! The teacher tells us to notice there is a front right and a front left...don't forget that one little fact along the way, ok! Keep in mind you will be wearing this and what loud stipes will do to your figure! :0
This is my one and only sweatshirt jacket I will probably ever, and I mean ((ever)) make! What a job....
I have little pockets though...so cute...this was all the fabric I had left of the the daisy fabric to work with....a real bummer!
Lesson number 1. Buy enough fabric in the beginning and don't assume you have enough, so....
Go back and buy more of that fabric! Oh, and don't use fabric you bought years ago for the main fabric...you will NOT have enough....well, you might... but I used some of mine in another project along the way of making this one jacket.
Lesson 2. Don't work on two projects at once! Because, you might be like me and see how pretty that fabric would be in the other project as well and assume you have enough for both...NOT!
You cut off the seams to make a clean sweatshirt fabric to start off with no lumps or bumps. If you are like me you will add your own bumps and lumps along the way..
You take the collar band off, the bottom band off, seperate the sleeves from the shirt, and cut down the side of the shirt as well as the center front. Yikes, it felt like I was ruining a perfectly good piece of clothing at the time. So, in the end you have two sleaves, two front pieces, and a back piece.
Ok, for anyone who saw my jacket (Tania) after our work shop...yes, I remade it! ahaha...not fun but I simply did not like the colors I had used, and after considering how much I had invested in this jacket... I decided I had no choice but to take it all apart and remake it. (not fun)
Anyway, as we started to make our jackets we were taking pictures as we went...then the sewing got more intense and I forgot to get more pictures. So, I will show you what I have and it gives you a general idea of how we made them.
It is a bit scary cutting the sweatshirt to pieces at first and then cutting all those little strips of fabric is a task. But, we cut...we sewed...and we laughed..we almost cried...we un-sewed...and sewed back...then ate pizza to regain our strength...jumped back into our sewing to get a sleeve finished, then two, and then the back. It was then that I stepped back to look at my jacket and went..."Ugh! What have I done!"
I realized in my frenzy that my colors were soooo not right. Plus, when someone would come to my table to see my work they would look for a minute..with that blank look on their face...as if to consider a moment and try to come up with something nice to say! Ya, it was nice but I and they know it was really ugly!!! lol
Lesson number 3. Pick out fabrics you will WANT to wear! Not just fabrics that go together...
I took it home and un-sewed almost the whole jacket and this is what I came up with the second time. Not exactly a thing of beauty but I will at least wear this one...well, I will wear it to places like the quilt store where I work and maybe to a cloth store....lol But, I LOVE THE COLORS!
