#quilt jacket

[waterbearwasteland]

My scraps quilt jacket is finally done!

The lining is an old flat sheet from the linen closet, the fleece and zipper were inherited, and the batting, binding, and top are all my scraps!

[queenofsquids]

finished the quilt jacket and in my 2am migraine state decided to pair it with this thrifted baby doll or teddy bear white checkered bibs 🤷🏻‍♀️

didn't realize until I went to put her away that she kinda coordinates with her shelf mate now ❤️🤍❤️🤍

but we'll see what sober Tara thinks of this clown coordination in the morning. hopefully not the early morning 🤞

[littlealienproducts]

Grandma’s Flower Garden Upcycled Quilt Jacket by MamaMoonandCo

[cafe-solo]

[creations-by-chaosfay]

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[shrikeseams]

Finished! Validate meeeeee.

Some encouragement for anyone else considering this project:

♡ I queued my various progress posts, and it actually only took me about one long weekend of work, not counting last minute trips to the local quilt shop and hand-finishing my binding.

♡ Apart from the lining, this is about 75% made from one jelly roll, with some support from existing scraps and maybe 1, 1 1/2 yards of additional fabric. (The jelly roll is the celestial batik from Missouri Star.) Now, I'm fat, this pattern has lapels, and this is cut to a Seamwork size 26. If you're a smaller person and/or using a simpler pattern, you can maybe get away with a jelly roll plus lining.

♡ My patch pockets are orphan blocks from the exterior and from a 2016 baby quilt. If you have orphan blocks lying around, this might be a fun way to use them!

♡ New quilting cotton has no drape to speak of. I expect this coat to soften and drape much better after a few washes.

♡ ETA: THIS HAS NO BATTING OR ACTUAL QUILTING. Tbh that would take much longer and be more difficult, and you'd have to bind all of your seams instead of just the hems. I live in Florida and this is about as much jacket as I ever need, but if I wanted to make something warmer I'd probably do a flannel interlining or something instead of true quilting. I'm still debating some hand stitched quilting around the cuffs and collars though, to keep everything stable.

Some additional notes, in case anyone else wants to do something similar with the Seamwork Quince:

♡ I used the Seamwork Quince body and the Seamwork Baz collar. It came out pretty well, but I had some trouble with my shoulder seam coming up short at first. I had to piece on extra fabric at the shoulder and sleeve, which was fine with a scrappy mixed pattern project like this.

♡ OK, you see the blue and yellow half-square triangle midway down the sleeve? I expected that to fall at my upper arm. It's at my elbow. And that *is* the top of the sleeve pattern piece. Now I do have narrow shoulders, but the shoulder on this is *very* dropped.

♡ Another sleeve issue: the cuff piece is meant to be folded over, ie halved in length down the arm. I decided to combine the sleeve piece and the cuff and didn't account for that, so my sleeves are hilariously long and have to be cuffed back, like, 6 inches.

Overall, if I decide to make another one... I'll use the Helen's Closet Pona Jacket pattern, which has everything I want in a quilt coat pattern without any hacking. But this was the pattern I had already in my profession and printed, and it worked out well.

[anielskaaniela]

All about recycling old jeans and quilted blanket into super comfy quilt jacket 🥳

[the59thstreetbridge]

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