Light Cotton Jacket, Matching Design No Pattern
This was a lovely gift of two yards of fabric from my friend who went to Bali.
I am proud of how I figured it out and also I had the perfect button hooks to match the fabric, wasting away in my button sewing box.
It was a 2 yard piece of fabric with dark blue background and gold metallic design. When it was finished I took the scraps and made a mask and earrings. Used every inch of this fabric.
I needed something lightweight and cotton, so I picked up the piece and examined the print. It had some lovely design that was in columns I could use for borders, but I could see it would take work to cut it out.
The selvage was a nice print of gold, that I didn't want to lose.
I laid out the whole piece of fabric and figured how I could cut the front pieces and the back piece on a fold and utilize the border strips.
When there wasn't quite enough of the strips I would block end them with the scraps.
In my sewalongwithkitty.com blog this post explains taking a simple piece of fabric and making a jacket for yourself. This was a little more complicated because of the print needing to be pieced correctly.
To be able to use those gold strip selvages I cut the strips on the print line and folded the opposite edge under, pressed so that I could topstitch on the edge of the sleeve rectangle and the front shirt piece also rectangles.
Closeup of Button hooks
Closeup of trim topstitched on sleeve to show gold selvage
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