Tag Archives: Sewing

Outdoors, Sewing, Textiles

Making a Thrift Store Jacket My Own

Motivation

I’ve been more and more interested in doing some projects with clothing and learning to sew. One thing I had always had in the back of my head was waxing a cotton garment to waterproof it. I didn’t have any jackets that I wanted to put up for the experiment, but hadn’t been able to find something to work on.

Then I found the perfect cotton safari type jacket in a Salvation Army in downtown Portland. It fit perfectly in the shoulders and chest, but was a little long in the sleeves. For $8 it was the perfect start to my project.

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Hammock, Outdoors, Textiles

Costco Down Throw Top Quilt

This is my implementation of the topquilt build by u/jcb272 on Reddit. I followed his layout pretty much to the T, including the color. This is my first real project done using a sewing machine and I think it came out great.

I did add some grosgrain to the seams to reinforce it, later. After putting in a little more time on the sewing machine I realized that my work could probably use a little reinforcing.

The end result is a pretty solid, lightweight quilt.

Included are the only shots I got of my  Costco down throw underquilt build. It came out really good. Unfortunately, my car was broken into and the quilt was lost, along with my hammock, pack, and a good number of other things. I guess I’ll just have to start from scratch with a new setup.