Hi Friends! Are you still with me? Or are you just skimming over these posts just to see if I’m going to finally be finished? It’s getting there! I finally put in the pit-zips in the sleeves and I will tell you that I have been laying awake at night trying to determine my best… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Pit-Zips!!!
Month: January 2012
The JamCat Fleece Project – Sleeves!!! Part 2, Attaching the sleeve to the body with a gusset
I can feel the excitement building can’t you? The moment of truth has arrived and it is time to sew in the gussets and attach the sleeve to the body of the jacket. I cut out the little triangle pieces for the gusset. Just a little note here, I slightly curve the inner edge along… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Sleeves!!! Part 2, Attaching the sleeve to the body with a gusset
The JamCat Fleece Project – Sleeves!!!! Part 1, The Overlay and Lining
Yay!!!! I’m finally on to the sleeves for this project! Hi Everyone! Welcome back to this JamCat Fleece project, Part what? Part 7, or is it 8? I’ve lost count. Anyhoosy…it is sleeve time, aren’t you excited? I have been waiting ever so patiently to get to this point to have my gusset alteration really… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Sleeves!!!! Part 1, The Overlay and Lining
The JamCat Fleece Project – Attaching the Fronts to the Back
HI! This is going to be a quick post as I only took a couple of pictures, and really only one of the jacket since the right side of the jacket is basicly the same as the left with one exception…I added a horizontal zippered chest pocket. The pocket was sewn EXACTLY the same as… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Attaching the Fronts to the Back
The JamCat Fleece Project – Upper Chest Zipper Pocket and Attaching the Lower Front
Hey Again! Last night I put together the Left Upper Front including the zippered pocket. The changes I have made to the Kwik Sew pattern are the width of the pocket and the lowering of the top-stitching line that runs across the front. Here’s the Upper Chest pocket on the Denali… The width of this… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Upper Chest Zipper Pocket and Attaching the Lower Front
The JamCat Fleece Project – Back Yoke
Hi Everyone! Well I spent a few moments trying to get my serger running so it would go through the fleece but I kept having problems with the 3rd thread of my 4thread set-up. Don’t know why? I put together the Back Yoke and then attached it to the Back body… I basted the fleece… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Back Yoke
The JamCat Fleece Project – Designing the Gusset for the Sleeve
Hi Again! Welcome back for part 5 of this Fleece Jacket project! How many parts will there be you ask? Well, in case you are new here, when I’m blogging a new project, I blog as I sew and I try to blog the project in a tutorial kind of way so if ever I… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Designing the Gusset for the Sleeve
The JamCat Fleece Project – Lining the Lower Fronts
Hi Everyone! This is the last step for the Lower Fronts and then I move on to the Sleeves! So all I need to do, now that the zippers are installed, is put a lining on the back. I cut a piece of the Nylon Tricot a little bit larger than the Lower Front pattern… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Lining the Lower Fronts
The JamCat Fleece Project – Installing the Lower Front Zipper
Hi Friends, me again… So picking up where I left off yesterday I’m now ready to install the zipper in the Lower Front. The first thing I need to do is mark with chalk the location of the zipper on the right side of the Lower Front fleece. I just drew a line from the… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Installing the Lower Front Zipper
The JamCat Fleece Project – Drafting the New Lower Front with Zippered Pockets
I have finished tracing off the pattern pieces and am now ready to re-draft the Lower Front. This is an easy fix to get what I want. So are you ready to follow along? Once again, here is my inspiration, the Denali Fleece from The North Face: Design notes: the Denali Fleece front side pockets… Continue reading The JamCat Fleece Project – Drafting the New Lower Front with Zippered Pockets
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