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The link below will take you to a Youtube Video slideshow  of many of the coats  I have made and give you ideas of what you can make. GSTREETFABRICS-COATS

 Sewing Something All The 'Time' The key word here is time ...all the time...we don't have. I work 10 hours a day 4 days and 7 hours the 5th day.  I don't have any more time than anyone else. On my two days off I spend going to my many doctors, the laundromat and normal errands, like picking up my prescriptions.  But I like clothes.  No, I know it is harder if you have others to take care of.  Here I am using time to blog.  The pic below looks messy but...A.  My shoes are stacked so I can grab them to go with whatever.  The clothes are outfits hung together on velvet hangers so I don't have to search for matching parts.   The papers on the wallcloth behind are parts I use all the time .  The pattern envelope is so I know what number pattern piece I am looking for that I use over and over again.  i.e.    Ziplock bag with the jacket parts I use in my freeflowing jackets.   I have made so many they would fall ...

  Having Trouble finding What You Need?... Get Organized Each Sewing Box Has Specialty Items- One for Masks One for Tote accessories One for Pants accessories and skirts-Elastics and hooks One for Coats accessories One for Buttons and novelty needs Use your Lable maker..... I want to find the thing I need without digging. Cans and containers have scissors, markers and Glues Plastic tray containers have Jewelry maker accessories Plastic canvas hanger for Earring organzation Patterns in Magazine Boxes on top of shelving and  Masks hanging from bent paper clips hooked to the magazine boxes so you can find them fast to match your outfits. Your Outfits on Velvet covered hangers so they don't slip and slide with the top jacket and bottom on the same hanger, so you don't have to search for matching items. Yes, I like to make accessories...a Little flamboyant. Yes even my cowel neck sweaters have to have scarves that match

  Well, make it as simple as you want....but somehow...someone gave me some bells so I had to add the snowmen with hats so I could put the bells on them.... Then of course, if I made them 3 D...I needed to make the trees etc 3 D..... and then of course, the fur.... on the sleeves and around the whole jacket... SO Cozy I  cut the jacket  In half up the front so I can make it a cardigan.  Then I have some christmas tree napkins that I did not give away in past years so I folded them into the tree shape and then stitched them onto the shirt in the back.   I will decorate them and add other embellishments before I line it. and add fur to the outter edges.         Sewing things on with invisible clear thread.... puffing the little presents and  toys and cookies and Santa and the Snowmen like a trapunto quilt.... Yes, I went wild with the crystal buttons for the tree stars.   Stay tuned for updates.   

This was my sample of machine stitching on a hot pad.... Sewing it to the back of my comical sweatshirt and putting fur around the cuffs and around the whole sweatshirt made it a fun thing to wear when it gets chilly in the warehouse in winter. 1.  Large size sweatshirt so it is a jacket size.   2.  turn the sweatshirt around so the front sayin is on the back. 3.   Slice up the middle of the back that is now the front. 4.  Buy one quarter of a yard of faux fur and then make it a soft one, clip  and tear into strips that you can fold over the edge of the jacket. one length will be 5 feet and that is enough to go around the front edge. another length will be enough to do your cuffs and the bottom edge or around your saying-the width of each strip ripped is about one third of your quarter yard....have fun. See You at GStreetFabrics having Fabric Fun  

  Scarf is triple twist= jacket, lace, and underlining white, twisted together-sleeves both blouse and jacket have fake cuff strip trim Its no secret I Love Palazzo Pants I am making a pair of off white pants right now. I cut out 2 fronts 2 backs 4 pockets.. sew the pockets to the pants side seam...sew the side seam and sew the crotch Sew... quickly you have pants with nice pockets.... but no waistband......  fold over the sewn waistband piece leaving a hole in the front center seam for a tie.  So you have sewn your tie piece together and you have two pieces of circle elastic the size of your waist.   sew the elastic into the top row easily, then the tie row and then the bottom elastic row.  This can then be top stitched onto the waist top of your already made pants.   Put your new pants on and for this kind of fabric I just decide where I want them to hit and cut them off...no hemming... Old vintage pattern, can be found online, just put in McCal...