How To Make A Quilted Sweatshirt Jacket

|Sponsored| Quilted jackets are all over the runways this flavor, and they are a fun project to endeavor your hand at quilting and using upward scraps. These jackets can be fabricated by cut up an existing quilt to upcycle or using a jacket pattern with blocks to create the effect yourself. In this episode of Style Revive, I reimagine my Geodesic Sweatshirt pattern by Blueprints for Sewing and hack it into a jacket.

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About the Design: Geodesic Sweatshirt

The blueprint perfectly reflects a quilt past having multiple triangle blocks to create the front and dorsum, and then a little cutting and imagination tin can transform your scraps and cutting out pattern into a new jacket with pizazz!

I love this sweatshirt pattern! It has a super comfortable fit and the panels make it fun to combine different colors and fabrics. For the textile, I used eco-friendly Cloud Fleece in the colors Saffron and Navy with matching ribbing for the bands.

This pattern comes with options for a longer or shorter hemline with pockets, and your size includes ane triangle slice you cut multiple times. You can cut every triangle in a different fabric or pick a couple gratuitous colors. This design is fabulous for practicing colour theory!

In my version I utilized complementary colors which are opposite on the color. This combination provides a high contrast between the colors and they announced brighter and more prominent. A great resource on the colour wheel and combinations is the ane on Canva. You can pick a color and and then choose which combination y'all want including analogous, triadic and monochromatic.

Yous tin can apply color theory to everything you sew, or just use it every bit a starting place for selecting fabrics to go together.

Making a Blanket Jacket

The triangle blocks in the Geodesic Sweatshirt brand it swell for experimenting with fabrics and colors, merely as soon as I finished my sweatshirt I had an idea to reuse this design every bit a quilted garment.

In the past I have fabricated this mode using an existing blanket/duvet, but you could also apply a quilt! And so you just cut the blanket in a elementary jacket or cardigan pattern.

Quilted Jacket Tutorial

I have never made a quilt before, so information technology was fun to experiment on a smaller scale. In the episode I terminate up the front pieces of the quilted jacket, and then all that is left is the back jacket, sleeves and finishings . . .

Stitch the dorsum pieces correct sides together and press the allowances.

Partially-pieced back of the quilted jacket

I like to beginning sew together the rows together and then attach them matching upwards the points.

Pressing the allowances on the pieced jacket back

Press the eye seam allowances open.

Quilting the Jacket Fabric

Now it's time to quilt the jacket back, simply similar for the front jacket pieces.

The quilted jacket back pinned to the fleece

I pinned the pieced dorsum piece to fleece and cut out with ane" assart around.

Drop the feed dogs, adhere a free motility human foot and get quilting! It was so much fun again to swirl around and create a design. I have too been practicing more and more than to free-motility certain patterns and designs.

Trimming the fleece allowance from the quilted jacket pieces

Once the back is quilted, trim away the fleece allowance.

Finishing the side seam allowances on the quilted jacket

Finish the side seam allowance separately on both the front and dorsum pieces.

Sewing the Quilted Jacket

Now it'south time to bring together the pieces together!

Pin the side seams right sides together.

Pieces of the quilted jacket ready to be joined

Loving how these pieces are looking together!

Stitching the side seams of the quilted jacket

Stitch the side seams. On my sweatshirt, I serged the seams together since it was knit fabric, but my jacket is made from woven quilting cotton so I stitched the seams with my regular machine.

Pressing the allowances open on the quilted jacket

Press the allowances open using a medium heat setting.

Basting the armhole of the quilted jacket

Earlier attaching the sleeves, stitch a basting row along the armhole to hold edges together.

Pinning the cuff to the sleeve of the quilted jacket

Pivot and stitch the sleeve cuff to the sleeve.

Pressing the allowance on the sleeve cuff

Finished allowances together and press up.

The sleeve can also be quilted in the same mode as the torso pieces, but I wanted to leave the sleeves unquilted for piece of cake layering and the power to wear in warmer atmospheric condition.

The sleeve of the quilted jacket, right sides together

Pin the sleeve seam right sides together matching upward the cuff seam.

Pressing the allowance of the sleeve seam, using a pressing sleeve roll

Stop the allowances together and press to i side. I always use a pressing sleeve gyre to assist.

Pinning the sleeve seam to the underarm of the quilted jacket

Flip the sleeves to the correct side and pin the sleeve seam to the underarm signal of the jacket.

Quilted jacket tutorial showing pinning the sleeve in place

Proceed to pivot the sleeve upwards to each neckline along the front and back.

Using a serger to finish the jacket seams

Stitch together and finish the allowances together.

Finishing the Quilted Jacket

Now it's ready for the binding!

Classic quilts are finished in various ways, simply binding is always a peachy pick, and so I wanted to bring that finished element to my quilted jacket besides.

You can make your own from a matching fabric in the jacket, or like me pick up a solid color in one of the prints and get pre-pressed bias binding. I always have green on paw!

Pinning the bias tape binding to the quilted jacket

Binding on the bias works nifty to terminate all the curves of the quilted jacket. Piece of work your fashion around pinning along the hem, front openings, and neckline.

Also use binding to cease the sleeve hems.

Sewing the bias binding onto the quilted jacket

Carefully run up the bounden to the jacket edges removing the pins as you lot become.

Quilted jacket tutorial showing finishing the bias tape binding

At the starting point, slightly overlap the binding to terminate and trim the backlog.

Jacket finished!

Y'all tin too hand sew a hook and eye along the front to slightly close the jacket.

The texture of this jacket is so overnice! I actually experience quite confident to make an entire quilt—just some other use for all my scrap fabrics.

I love how the colors of my fabric make this quilted jacket a bit summery for those cooler days, and since the sleeves are not fleece lined it isn't too bulky or warm.

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Happy Sewing!
Meg

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