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I mostly followed the directions for making the jacket. The front and
back had to be pieced. I didn't quite have enough fabric from 1 pair of
size 14 women's jeans to go all the way around. I decided to make the
back all from that pair of jeans and use a second pair in the front. The
sleeves are made from a third pair of jeans.
While making this jacket I learned the value of using the correct needle for your machine. I started with a Singer denim needle, but after sewing only a few seams I had a terrible time with thread breakage. I switched to Schmetz and was able to complete the jacket with that needle. I talked to my dealer about the needles and learned that for my machine, a Bernina, the Singer needle is too long.
The yokes are pieced from junk jeans denim, a heavy cotton woven (the lizards and turquoise strip), and "quilting" cottons. The lizard and strip are the same reversible fabric. I'd purchased this fabric many years ago from the seconds bin at Sweet Potatoes factory store in Berkeley, California. Piecing the denim and cotton was difficult because of the great difference in the weights of the fabric.
For the surface embellishment, I used a modified Wendy Hill
method. I'd seen her on the
Carol Duvall Show, but I do not have her book On
the Surface. Instead of using 20 different threads, I used 4 (neon
yellow, hot pink, mettalic turquoise, and navy). The neon yellow and
navy threads are regular sewing threads. The hot pink is a ribbon
floss, and I used that in the needle with considerable breakage. If I
use ribbon floss again, I will either couch it or use it in the bobbin.
I could not use the metallic thread in the needle, not even with a
metafil needle designed for sewing metallic thread. However, it worked
fine in the bobbin.
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