The Peplum Jacket
Some of us will live for ever... do you believe it? I can prove it...
"The products featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik"
This was supposed to be my post from yesterday, last day of 2020. But after 3 days of frenetic sewing, I sat on the sofa and let Mister Garfield "pet me" for 5 min and the next thing I remember was my family waking me up for New Year's dinner time. Sometimes your body just shuts off :)
Image: Garfield, the cat!
About a year and something I found on Etsy this Yvonne Porcella's pattern for 3 quilted jackets.
The pattern was designed to accompany Yvonne's books "Pieced Clothing Variations" and "Pieced Clothing", published in 1980 (the year that I was born). The 3 jackets were designed to be sewn in the three layer method, exactly like a quilt!
I believe some of us will never die, we will be in our ideas floating around just waiting to be visited by the next generations, exactly how I'm visiting Yvonne today, with my version of her Peplum Jacket!
For my version I used Island Batik 2 1/2" by 44" strips package with 2 sets of 20 individual fabric strips from the Wonderland Collection, designed by Kathy Engle plus 2 yards of Batik Foundation in marble storm. The linen is an Art Gallery pure solids in navy from the time I was living in Switzerland.
I decided to use the strips for a foundation paper piecing composition for the back of the jacket. Because the fabrics are most dark, I decided to use the Black version of my favorite Heirloom® Premium 80/20 batting. I quilted with straight lines 1/2" apart and in a 45 angle degree using Aurifil Forty3 40w/3ply in color 2785 as top thread and 50wt same color in the bobbin. I also used the same thread combination for sewing the jacket pieces together.
This is actually my third quilted jacket, you can also check my Gandalf's Quilted Coat and the Quilted Bomber Jacket here, by clicking the names and they are all very friendly sewing patterns and the satisfaction after its done is really cool. I'm totally addicted to sewing quilted clothing and have always had my eyes around patterns that can be used for new projects!
And here we go, my very special version of the "Peplum Jacket" from the marvelous Yvonne Porcella!
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