Quilted Sweateshirt

 Hello Readers. Free promotional shirts are so common at thrift stores, we all get them from festivals and events.They get donated often. They are usually covered with advertising and they are not very cute. Let's make this promotional sweatshirt as cute as can be. 

 Before and after some simple alterations.  

 This sweatshirt was boring and blah. I can change that though. I have some scrap pieces of a quilt. I want to use some of this quilt to decorate this sweatshirt and make it special. (This is a modern quilt made in a factory, it was not made by my grandmother or yours. It's not antique or vintage. Please do not get upset about cutting up this quilt. It's OK. I have 2 quilts made by my great grandmother and I solemnly swear to never cut them.) 

 I measured the area that I wanted to cover. This shirt has printing on the front and back. I want to cover both. I cut a square-ish rectangular shape to cover the printing. I don't want to see any of the writing peeking out around my quilt piece so i used the size of the writing as a guide for how big to make my quilt piece I made my quilt piece a bit larger than the printing I wanted to cover.  I un-picked the stitches of the front pocket. I saw there was a stain on my shirt at the waistband, that's OK. I just cut it off. The pocket came off with the bottom of the sweat shirt. It looks short right now but I will fix that later. 

I pinned the quilt piece in place over the printing with a lot of pins. I wanted the quilt piece to stay in place and not shift around at all while I was sewing. The pins will do this.

 I used a zigzag stitch on my sewing machine and stitched along the edge of the quilt piece. The stitches will cover the cut edge and make it look nice and neat as well as attach the quilt piece to the shirt. The light blue is a nice color with the quilt and the sweatshirt. 

 When I was done sewing the front and back pieces onto the sweat shirt. I got a long horizontal piece of the quilt. It had a really pretty scalloped edge and I wanted to sew it on the bottom of the sweat shirt. It would add the length that I had cut off and it would be a fun look. 

 My new sweat shirt was cute in front and back. I liked the new look. 

 I added some light blue ribbon through the hood casing because it didn't have any string in it. It was just for fun and added a touch of matching light blue to the hood. 

 

Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.    

Jacket From a Quilt

 Hello Readers. I made a jacket from a quilt to match the skirt I made from the quilt last week. I liked the skirt but I thought the skirt needed a matching top. 

Before and after, and after.

It all started with this quilt. I thought it was pretty and would be great for upcycling into clothing. It wasn't hand-made or any family heirloom.

I made a simple skirt and didn't feel like it was great on it's own. I wanted to have a matching top. The quilt would be too thick as a shirt so I made a jacket.

I used the Bog pattern by The Sew and Sew. I already made one jacket using this pattern and I knew it would be a good one for this quilt.

This was the initial version. I sewed this up and realized it was longer than I wanted. The skirt I made would look better with a cropped jacket.

I cut the jacket shorter and added a zipper in the front. 

My new cropped quilt jacket was ready.

A quilted suit? Sure, why not. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.

***Year End Update- These 2 pieces work really well together. The colors are so pretty too. The quilt was a little heavy and stiff so it isn't soft but it is warm.

Skirt From a Quilt

 Hello Readers. I think spring has finally sprung in my part of the world. There are flowers, trees are budding, I saw a bee today. We made it through winter. Before it gets too hot, I wanted to use a quilt for an upcycle project. It has taken me a while to find a quilt, that was not a family heirloom, that had colors I liked and was in good shape.

Before and after.

 

This quilt was perfect for this project. It had a lot of pretty colors and I loved the scalloped edge.
 

I used a skirt that fit well as a pattern. I chose a very simple A-line shape because the quilt was thicker than most fabrics. It was a little stiff too. A simple shape would work best. 

 

I had 2 skirt pieces and I was ready to put them together. I put the right sides together and stitched along the edge. I used a serger but a zigzag stitch would work too. I only sewed the bottom half of one side so I could sew in a zipper.

I used my serger on the cut edge at the waistband to control fraying, (You could use a zigzag stitch if you want.). I decided to use that lacey white strip as my waistband.

I turned the serged edge under and stitched it down with my sewing machine.

 

 I put a zipper in at the side so I could get the skirt on and off. 

 

I liked how the skirt turned out. But why did I wear that shirt with it? I don't like that at all.

 

 Do over? I'm not sure about this combo either. Maybe I need to make a matching top? Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.

***Year End Update- I liked this quilt skirt. It is fun and the scalloped hem is the best.