Cropped Car Coat Jacket #3 | denim look | (Alabama Chanin remake)
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| Beautiful jeans look. Closed finish all over wherever possible. Used the "flipping inside out" kind of technique. (It's the same technique that Alabama Chanin uses by putting the inside layer on top of the outside layer, then sewing the seams, then flipping the layers around so that the seam is now totally hidden inside the garment.) Then coloured the visible seams with a sharpie so that it's not so eye catching. (The visible seams, such as centre back, exposed the batting layers, which is the same colour smurf blue as I'm wearing on the dress). The buttons are slate colour; not black. All of my buttons (bronze, bright silver, slate) worked on this garment but slate is the least obvious and I want the topstitch/backstitch to be the main feature. Buttons also added to the pocket flaps |
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| Made from five size L men's tank tops. Very little left over; not enough to use on anything else. Used three skeins of Madeira Mouline #2114, a beautiful ochre colour that looks almost like old gold. Only I think less than 1m remained of the three skeins. |
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| Due to the 4x layers of cotton jersey, where the inner two layers (like batting) are 220gsm. It is the same fabric as the blue dress pictured. It's thick. The dark blue (originally called ensign blue) layers are typical mart-bought weight cotton jersey (estimate 140gsm). So one layer is 140x2+220x2=720gsm. Hence the thickness, volume, structure that can be seen. |
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| Top two buttons are a little closer together just cos they're the most used buttons and I wanted that flexibility exactly there. So that when the top button is undone, it's not that far to the second button. |
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| One difference between the a.c. original and this is that I have topstitched/backstitched the collar. I don't know why a.c. didn't do that, cos I usually need to follow all their details and stop where they stop. But honestly I think it looks better with the collar decorated. |
Behind the seams photos
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| Lots of markings for buttons helped a lot. It actually makes it faster to get all the alignments marked. Even marked the four points for attaching the button. The stitching of the button attachment can be seen, so it's important to make all in the same direction and check that the visible side is a good shape. |
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| Adding stitching one by one, using rubber band each time to pull through 4x layers. Top-stitch (backstitch) is actually only decorative. It doesn't fell the seams. Too thick to fell the seams. |
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| Top-stitch decoration & un-decorated |
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Top-stitch decoration & un-decorated. Lots of lines drawn on with washable marker so that the lines are sewn straight. Worth ruling these lines on to create the top-stitch lines; much less thinking required as you sew to create the correct (un-wonky) lines.Alabama Chanin inspiration photo Materials cost
Total = $33 |
