A jacket for Jamie

I've had this black and white check fabric sitting around for a while now. I just couldn't make up my mind what to make with it...a dress? Skirt? Bag?
I decided to look through my sewing books for inspiration, and suddenly came across a lovely pattern for a reversible jacket for Jamie in Sewing for Boys!
I had seen it in there before when using the book for other things, but had never made it....I thought it would be perfect for the fabric!
I teamed it with a beige ripstop, patch pockets, and some chunky self cover buttons...and voila!
A lightweight, reversible jacket for Spring!
He seems to like it...haha! (apparently the sunglasses were NOT optional!)

Thanks for looking!

Lisa

Impulse sewing....

I really do love my Sewing Clothes Kids Love book.

I got up this morning, and wanted to sew something, so out it came, and I decided on the Avalon Jacket.

Now, you all know I don't have a girl to sew for, but I see it as all good practice on sewing techniques and pattern construction...I love the way all those random looking pieces of fabric suddenly all come together and become something!

So, another day of sewing for sewing's sake...and why not? 

I used decor weight fabrics, and they seem to work really well for a jacket...and the ribbon on the back actually matches a lot better than it looks in the photo lol!

So here it is!

Front...

 Back...

 And a quick shot of the ribbon detail!

Thanks for looking, and happy sewing, if sewing is what you're doing!

Lisa

xxx