Linen jacket
 
Combine great looking designs in your favorite colors on a linen jacket.
 
Supplies
 
  • Ready-made or custom-sewn jacket
  • Fabric and lining according to pattern envelope if constructing the jacket Note: Our sample garment was a ready­made shirt/jacket constructed of 55% linen and 45% rayon. Alternate fabrics might be silk noil, 100% linen or wool gabardine. A variety of mid-weight fabrics that drape well will work.
  • Mesh cut-away stabilizer
  • Temporary spray adhesive
  • Strip of muslin or scrap fabric at least 5" x 24"
  • Embroidery and bobbin thread; sewing thread if constructing jacket
  • Size 80/10 Microtex sharp needle
  • Water-soluble marker and/or tailor's chalk
  • Pattern tracing supplies
  • Embroidery designs of your choice
Preparation
 
  • Prewash or dry-clean fabric or the finished garment.
  • Use the pattern tracing supplies to make pattern templates of your garment pattern pieces. If constructing the garment, mark the hem and the seam allowances on the paper templates. For a ready-made garment, measure the pattern pieces to be embel­lished and make paper templates as close as possible to the finished garment (A).
  • Select the embroidery motifs. With soft­ware, it's possible to resize designs. Otherwise, use the touch screen on your embroidery machine to change the size. Print templates in software or make copies of the templates that may have come with the design card, if software is not available
 
  • In our sample jacket, the design areas are at the front shoulder seams, collar, between the buttonholes, jacket hem and down the center back (B). Choose a pleasing arrangement of motifs as desired.
  • Using a water-soluble marker, mark placement lines on the ready-made jacket or cut out pattern pieces if custom sewing and mark. Allow additional fabric at the edges for hooping.
  
  Embroidery  
     
 
  • Hoop two layers of mesh stabilizer (held together with temporary spray adhesive) and the area being embroidered.
  • When working with the collar, baste a piece of muslin with two rows of stitches to the outside of the collar points; insert into the smallest hoop available. One row of stitching does not hold well enough to the strain of the embroidery hoop
  
 

 
 
 

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Revised: August 23, 2004.
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