Jacket Conversion

[guitarmatt]

Here's a jacket I just finished converting. I won't post many project details, because that ground's been covered better in other threads. Instead, I'm posting this to serve as inspiration to anyone who's thought of doing a jacket but decided not to for lack of sewing experience. My only sewing experience before this project was cutting a pocket out of an old pair of jeans and sewing it into my messenger bag to have a place to put my ipod. For this project I just took advice from the conversion threads already posted, basted everything before I stitched it for real, and used a fair dose of "I wonder if this will work?"













It's far from perfect, but I think it came out pretty well for a jacked that cost 6 quid (I saved some children by buying it, too). I'm going to go in through the pockets (which are still functional) and cut out the excess fabric inside, you can see in some of the pics that it's a bit lumpy when viewed from the inside.

So there you go, a dose of encouragement to those of you thinking of doing it yourself!

[Farlander]

Congratulations on a very serviceable kilt jacket, good job!

The sleeves look a little long. Standing as you are in these pictures, a little past the bend in your wrist is good. All the way to your knuckles it a bit much.

I personally find changing the sleeve length on a jacket a bit tricky to get a good job on, but not impossible. If you do decide to shorten the sleeves a little, and it gets too daunting, it is a very standard alteration that any tailor can help you with.

Enjoy your fine new jacket!

[guitarmatt]

Congratulations on a very serviceable kilt jacket, good job!

The sleeves look a little long. Standing as you are in these pictures, a little past the bend in your wrist is good. All the way to your knuckles it a bit much.

I personally find changing the sleeve length on a jacket a bit tricky to get a good job on, but not impossible. If you do decide to shorten the sleeves a little, and it gets too daunting, it is a very standard alteration that any tailor can help you with.

Enjoy your fine new jacket!

Sleeves are next on my list for this jacket. After getting the main work of the conversion done I just couldn't wait to wear it out for the day! I had a long coat on over the whole thing so the sleeves weren't really an issue today, but for sure I need to fix them before summer rolls around.

[MrShoe]

Very nice....Sleeves are better a little long than short! lol

That has been my problem. I have been looking for months at the thrift stores for a jacket that I could alter, but 35" sleeves are hard to find on a size 40-42 jacket.

Again GREAT JOB!!