Cate's Jacket is Finished

I finally finished Cate's jacket and am sending it off to Texas today.


I was pleased with how all of her choices turned out...


The fabrics looked great...


And so did her ribbon choices...


And the peace signs were the same style that we used in Pants Pants Revolution...


With those fraying edges...


I had to add a few special touches myself ~~~

I used all those fun stitches on my sewing machine in different colors to give the collar a little more pizazz -- I thought they looked great against the white background.


A little monogram "C "...


And a special label for the inside.


I printed a mirror image of the label onto transfer paper and ironed it on...It came out a little light and smudged so I went over it with a micron pen and it looks just ok. Perfection is overrated anyway.


And I LOVE how this froggy turned out!!

It's a rhinestone applique from MJTrim with a tongue and fly a la Aunt Susan...


It's by far my favorite part.

By far...*smile

Now I'm off to make more leaves...oh, and to find those little file folders Cate asked me to send...

Oh, and I haven't forgotten about stitching my story...but it probably won't happen until this Summer...

[Note: For those new to my blog, you can see Cate's Design Book on this post which I sent to Cate to help her design her own jacket...And you can read about Cate's design choices here.]

Jean Jackets X 3

Yesterday, I mentioned that we had my brother's family for our Christmas gift exchange. He has three daughters -- twins in 3rd grade and the oldest in 6th grade.

I decided to embellish jean jackets for all three of them.


One of the twins has expressed her love for a jean jacket I own that is embellished with rhinestones...

so I knew that she would love a jacket that had rhinestones. So I decided to make her a jean jacket and, being afraid to make one thing for one and not for the other two, I ended up making three jean jackets...but only one had rhinestones.

The other two girls are not the rhinestone type...

These took me a little longer to embellish than I expected. One jacket was lime green/light blue,




the second was turquoise with rhinestones

and the third was pink.


The first jacket had velvet buttons, the second jacket had rhinestone buttons and the third was all-different colored buttons. I think I ended up liking the pink one the best.



Unfortunately, I have no great picture of the girls wearing them. With ten children, there was a little too much mayhem for me to remember to take good pictures. I was lucky to get these...my husband Jim was smart enough to pick up the camera and take a few shots while I was passing out the presents.


After making three of them, I came up with a fairly straight-forward recipe for embellishing the jean jacket. I even remembered to take step-by-step photos in case it lends itself to a tutorial. I have to figure out how to make it into a .pdf file though and I won't have time for that until all of my beautiful company is gone...