Just finished up my cozy winter hand-sewing project, a quilted jacket. Perfect timing for light jacket (or is it "wrong coat") season.
This is the Daisy Chain Patterns Liz Quilted Liner Jacket sewing pattern. It's a simple, modern take on a vintage military liner jacket. It's an oversized jacket with drop sleeves, overlapping lapels, and giant pockets.
The pattern goes up to a size 6X, which has a finished bust measurement of 83.5 inches. I cut a size 2X, which worked out well.
The fabric is a lovely, light, textured handwoven cotton I got at my local secondhand craft supply shop,
The Makery. I love the array of greens, with pops of yellow and orange mixed in.
I was lucky enough to get a massive amount of this subtly striped fabric - like 8 yards - so I was able to use it for both the exterior and lining of this quilted jacket, and I still have enough left over for a top!
I played a bit with the stripe direction/grainline - vertical on the body of the jacket and horizontal on the sleeves and pockets.
I used some quilt batting in between the layers.
I decided it was in keeping with the handmade texture of the fabric to do some hand quilting, in a similar way that I did for my improv quilted jacket, so that's what I did!
I had a big spool of olive-y green topstitching thread that worked well with the fabric.
I stitched parallel rows of rustic running stitch, about an inch and a half apart, perpendicular to the stripes on the fabric.
The binding is linen left over from
my Palmer shirtdress. I stitched the first pass by machine and then handstitched the binding visibly on the exterior.
I'm pretty smitten with my Liz quilted jacket! Cozy, textured, comforting. Like a handmade wearable sleeping bag.
