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Lingerie Contest Medium

Green sweatshirt bolero

23 June 2009, 16:11

I posted a few in progress photos of this bolero last week, but I’m happy to announce now that the embellishment is complete, and so is the bolero!

The pattern is from the March 09 KnipMode, the same issue which bore the recent faux-wrap jeanskirt, and it’s just a simple cropped jacket for knits, with 3 pattern pieces (not counting the few facings I drafted).

It’s a cute little jacket with some metal jersey snaps from the front…

…and then, as I turn to the back…

…a silver sailing aak emerges!

It’s my first try with this technique, but with a bit of silver metallic paint, a freezer paper stencil, and and old aak barge icon as my design, I was able to get a really clean and neat stencil on the back of the shirt in very little time at all. I first printed out the design onto regular paper, then I laid it on top of the freezer paper (shiny side down) and taped both to my rotary cutter mat. Then, with an Xacto knife and the aid of a ruler, I cut out all the dark areas, then untaped everything and really carefully pressed the freezer paper onto the bolero with a hot iron. Then I just had to dab the paint on and wait for it to dry before peeling the freezer paper off. I heat set it using a press cloth, and that was it! My sample went through the washing machine as good as new, too. Really, this was so easy James is hankering to do his own designs now…

I didn’t have enough sweatshirting to line this jacket, as the pattern called for, so I used some matching green ribbing which I had bought at the same time and lined the front sections and made facings for the neckline edges (I just turned up and hemmed the bottom and sleeve hems).

This is just too easy to wear, I’ve found myself wearing it pretty much nonstop since the paint dried! I really recommend this pattern if you just want a casual little thing to throw on in cool evenings, or to layer over vests (tank tops) and teeshirts!

Tags: jacket, knipmode, knit

Comments:

  1. Too cute! You look really nice. I haven’t said before, but you look great with the new haircut


    — Lisa    Jun 23, 04:48 PM    #

  2. This jacket is really cute. Great job on the stencil.


    — Cindy    Jun 23, 04:51 PM    #

  3. You really have a creative eye and do great handywork as well.


    — velosewer    Jun 24, 01:13 AM    #

  4. Don’t you just love This looks like a little jacket that will be perfect for your enviornment.


    — gwen    Jun 24, 04:21 AM    #

  5. Super cool print! I admire your precision cutting skills, I am to clumsy to pull such details off.


    — Johanna Lu    Jun 24, 07:59 AM    #

  6. Oh you look so cute in it! What a smart little jacket :o)


    — EmilyKate    Jun 24, 09:18 AM    #

  7. It’s fabulous!
    One of my aunts had a Kheesond (not sure if thats how you spell it) which was a dutch barge dog who was my best friend as a child. Perhaps he could also be described as an Aak dog?


    — Kim Hood    Jun 24, 10:59 PM    #

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