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...