Pattern is"Sew Creative Jacket" by Jo Lee Tarbell.
Wool jacket, that I washed the fabric and dried, before sewing. I used ultra suede and wooden buttons for the embellishments. Cut the ultra suede free hand for the leaves and then top stitch on to the jacket. Make sure to use a tear away stabilizer under the leaves!
The fun part and new to me,
is using my pearls and piping foot with my seger to simulate piping. I used a thick wool yarn for the piping, I did this because I wanted to keep the flow of the jacket the same, yet give it a finished look. The leaves on the jacket are ultra suede with biege stitching, Wood leaf buttons were purchased at Jo Ann Fabrics.
For the faux piping, you put on the pearls foot on the serger, lay the yarn in the slot for the pearls, have the yarn extend out the back of the foot about 1". The yarn will fill the slot. Keep the yarn loose in your lap. No tension at all on the yarn, it will feed very well. Take a scrap of fabric and do a test sew. Adjust the tensions until you like the look of the piping. With my seger, it said to put the needle in the left needle hole. It works better in the right. I did not close one seam at the bottom side of the coat or the sleeves. I left about 4" unstitched, started the faux piping at that open side....went all around the jacket. Then closed the side seam of the jacket and sleeves.
Pattern is"Sew Creative Jacket" by Jo Lee Tarbell.
Wool jacket, that I washed the fabric and dried, before sewing. I used ultra suede and wooden buttons for the embellishments. Cut the ultra suede free hand for the leaves and then top stitch on to the jacket. Make sure to use a tear away stabilizer under the leaves!
The fun part and new to me, is using my pearls and piping foot with my seger to simulate piping. I used a thick wool yarn for the piping, I did this because I wanted to keep the flow of the jacket the same, yet give it a finished look. The leaves on the jacket are ultra suede with biege stitching, Wood leaf buttons were purchased at Jo Ann Fabrics.
For the faux piping, you put on the pearls foot on the serger, lay the yarn in the slot for the pearls, have the yarn extend out the back of the foot about 1". The yarn will fill the slot. Keep the yarn loose in your lap. No tension at all on the yarn, it will feed very well. Take a scrap of fabric and do a test sew. Adjust the tensions until you like the look of the piping. With my seger, it said to put the needle in the left needle hole. It works better in the right. I did not close one seam at the bottom side of the coat or the sleeves. I left about 4" unstitched, started the faux piping at that open side....went all around the jacket. Then closed the side seam of the jacket and sleeves.
