$3 THIFTED MAGIC

I love me a great thrift store find.

Like this Wedding Ring Quilt.

Hold onto your hat...the price tag was $3.00

Not a typo...$3.00

There were a few hole in it and the binding had seen better days.

I found this pattern to make a quilt coat.

Lawd have mercy...it was $18 on sale!

But it was a perfect style for me.

A swing coat of sorts.

Only I wanted a shorter length...which was an option.

I am not much of a garmet maker.

So I enlisted the help of my sweet friend, Patty Estadt.

She knows what she's doing...me...an amateur!

Patty was able to lay out this pattern over the quilt

and look how the lapels came into play!

And the back of the coat was just ahhhmazing!

And before we knew it...well, 2 days later...

Here's what happened.

Oh me gosh! I love it.

Look at the cuffs....we used almost every inch of that quilt!

Yep, one happy girl in a beautiful quilt coat.

The bottom edge has a facing type of binding.

And here it is all buttoned up!

UPCYCLE THOSE JACKETS

QuiltCon 2024 was 

a showcase of quilty upcycled and handmade 

quilted coats and denim jackets.

My bestie and travel companion, Kim Hensley

bought a cute quilted denim jacket at a local made event

before we went.

Sew that meant....I had to try and make one!

I found this denim jacket at a thrift shop for $5.00

I found a baby quilt for $3.00 

ahhh this would become the jacket sleeves

Sew the sleeves were cut out of the jacket and

I used them as a pattern to cut the new "quilted sleeves" for my jacket.

NOTE: cut the quilted fabric a bit larger than the pattern

so the sleeves won't be too tight!

I added length to the sleeve pattern, to add some denim for the cuffs.

I should have added width as they were a bit tight

Due to the quilted sleeve fabric is thicker than denim

And this was my final result!

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While at QuiltCon I did some a few demin jackets I enjoyed!

I am wearing  green denim  Ghastlies and 

my Ghasttlies soul sister is in blue denim. 

This cutrer quilt was only $3 quilt and

denim jackets are always lurking.