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Make a Quilted Jacket with Orphan Blocks

Do you have orphan quilt blocks in your stash?  It’s time to make a unique quilted jacket with those orphan blocks!  Whether they were passed down to you from previous generations of sewists or are left over from your own or a friend’s quilt making project, we’ve got some great… 

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Inspiration and Materials for Kids Modern

Each month here at the Sew! Let’s get Dressed Blog we are bringing you some insider info about the projects in our book Sewing Quilted Patchwork Jackets.  This post is about the inspiration and materials for what we nicknamed “Kids Modern”, the adorable kid size Wholecloth and Collage Opus Jacket,… 

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Scrappy Selvage Fun – April Fools!

We’re featuring a jacket today made from a collection of modern quilting cottons which provided Rae with some scrappy selvage fun- April Fools appropriate!  When Rae was a girl learning to sew, her mother, along with every teacher she ever had, suggested that you should trim away the selvages after… 

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From Quilt to Quilted Coat or Jacket

Upcycling a finished quilt to a quilted coat or jacket is a fun way to practice sustainable sewing while creating a unique and very special garment to wear.  Today we take a closer look at the Repurposed Quilt Duster, Project #6 in Sewing Quilted Patchwork Jackets.  Every quilted jacket project…