Post by Iceburg on Oct 19, 2008 11:01:10 GMT -7
Part 2: Making the Pattern and Cutting out your pieces
Alright, now that you have all of your materials, let's get started in actually MAKING your Krueger Jacket.
Start with laying out your black fabric, or the top fabric, out on the floor. I'd recommend doing this in the living room, garage, patio, any place where you can lay down, stretch your arms and legs out, and will have plenty of room to work.
If you're using the living room, toss your second fabric, the underpart of your jacket- in this case the green/red fabric, on the couch somewhere- out of the way.
As I said before, lay out your first fabric (I'm using the black) out across the floor.
Grab your t-shirt and fold it in half.
Then, fold the sleeves inward and lay your shirt on the fabric (yes, I was an idiot when I chose a black shirt to go on a black fabric- if you're making a tutorial, please don't do this)
Grab your piece of chalk and draw around your shirt, then take your shirt off the fabric. Leave extra room and don't cut exact. It'll help you later on in life. Trust me.
DO NOT INCLUDE THE SLEEVES WHEN DRAWING AROUND YOUR SHIRT IN CHALK!!! This is probably one of the most important things to remember when making any piece of upper clothing.
For this tutorial, I marked where the sleeves were so you can see what I mean.
For this jacket, it needed to be longer than just a normal shirt a.k.a. longer than just my upper body, so I drew my chalk lines all the way down to the bottom of the fabric. Don't worry about over-exaggerating- you'll fix this all later.
Grab your scissors and cut out your beautiful piece of outlined fabric! Don't worry about being precise. Here you can see the neck being cut out.
Here's the shoulder.
And finally- your finished piece of cut out fabric.
Next, take your piece you just cut out and put it back on the fabric. If you have a patterned piece of fabric, or a "right" side and a "wrong" side, then flip the "pattern" (the piece you just cut out) over. Get your chalk out again and trace around it. Remember: Being perfect isn't everything.
Congrats! You now have another chalk outline!
Once again, cut it out.
Once you get to this step, it might be wise to grab a helper. I didn't have to ask for mine, she came voluntarily. Once you have your helper, lay your two pieces side-by-side. See how they're identical?
Yay! Now- this step is a bit tricky if you don't pay attention. Following this picture:
you make your last two pieces look like this:
In case you can't tell what I did, the top picture is me showing the neck hole- you aren't going to make one for the next two pieces since they'll be your back pieces. Cut straight across them but still leave the arm holes.
Take your two back pieces and lay them back-to-back like so
Using your pins, pin the two pieces together.
Notice mine are going up and down instead of side-to-side as shown here:
It doesn't really matter which you do at this point, but I'd recommend up and down.
Since there's going to be a split in the back, I got down on the floor and put scissors where my butt was and didn't pin the part below the scissors.
Grab your helper again and pin the sides on making sure to not pin the arm hole.
Once it's all pinned up and pretty- try it on!
Make sure it isn't perfect. This next picture shows how far out it goes on me.
As you can probably see, I wasn't thinking and wore a black shirt. ^-^"
Anyways- Unpin one of your sides (Has to be a side piece, not a back piece)
And throw the rest of your jacket on your couch while grabbing your other fabric.
For me, this fabric was waaay bigger than the previous as shown in these two pictures
Grabbing your helper again, lay out your second fabric on the ground (keep in mind that your helper will help you A LOT in the next few steps)
Put your un-pinned black piece on top of your pretty fabric. This will be your pattern piece. Your helper may or may not need to help.
Straighten it out (with the help of your helper)
Draw a chalk line around it
As you can see, this fabric is bigger
Cut your fabric out nice and pretty like
Now at this point, you have two options-
1. Use the black pattern piece
2. Use your other piece
The reason there are two options are because if you want your patterns to look the same and match, you wouldn't want to use your black piece.
Only by coincidence did my two patterns match up
Cut out the back two pieces the same as you did the black
Pin together. I matched my stripes together, but you don't have to if you don't want.
Your helper may want to help to supervise things
Flip inside out and try on.
Once again- showed how much excess fabric I had (which is good for a coat)
Part 1- Materials
Part 3- Trying on and Trimming
Alright, now that you have all of your materials, let's get started in actually MAKING your Krueger Jacket.
Start with laying out your black fabric, or the top fabric, out on the floor. I'd recommend doing this in the living room, garage, patio, any place where you can lay down, stretch your arms and legs out, and will have plenty of room to work.
If you're using the living room, toss your second fabric, the underpart of your jacket- in this case the green/red fabric, on the couch somewhere- out of the way.
As I said before, lay out your first fabric (I'm using the black) out across the floor.
Grab your t-shirt and fold it in half.
Then, fold the sleeves inward and lay your shirt on the fabric (yes, I was an idiot when I chose a black shirt to go on a black fabric- if you're making a tutorial, please don't do this)
Grab your piece of chalk and draw around your shirt, then take your shirt off the fabric. Leave extra room and don't cut exact. It'll help you later on in life. Trust me.
DO NOT INCLUDE THE SLEEVES WHEN DRAWING AROUND YOUR SHIRT IN CHALK!!! This is probably one of the most important things to remember when making any piece of upper clothing.
For this tutorial, I marked where the sleeves were so you can see what I mean.
For this jacket, it needed to be longer than just a normal shirt a.k.a. longer than just my upper body, so I drew my chalk lines all the way down to the bottom of the fabric. Don't worry about over-exaggerating- you'll fix this all later.
Grab your scissors and cut out your beautiful piece of outlined fabric! Don't worry about being precise. Here you can see the neck being cut out.
Here's the shoulder.
And finally- your finished piece of cut out fabric.
Next, take your piece you just cut out and put it back on the fabric. If you have a patterned piece of fabric, or a "right" side and a "wrong" side, then flip the "pattern" (the piece you just cut out) over. Get your chalk out again and trace around it. Remember: Being perfect isn't everything.
Congrats! You now have another chalk outline!
Once again, cut it out.
Once you get to this step, it might be wise to grab a helper. I didn't have to ask for mine, she came voluntarily. Once you have your helper, lay your two pieces side-by-side. See how they're identical?
Yay! Now- this step is a bit tricky if you don't pay attention. Following this picture:
you make your last two pieces look like this:
In case you can't tell what I did, the top picture is me showing the neck hole- you aren't going to make one for the next two pieces since they'll be your back pieces. Cut straight across them but still leave the arm holes.
Take your two back pieces and lay them back-to-back like so
Using your pins, pin the two pieces together.
Notice mine are going up and down instead of side-to-side as shown here:
It doesn't really matter which you do at this point, but I'd recommend up and down.
Since there's going to be a split in the back, I got down on the floor and put scissors where my butt was and didn't pin the part below the scissors.
Grab your helper again and pin the sides on making sure to not pin the arm hole.
Once it's all pinned up and pretty- try it on!
Make sure it isn't perfect. This next picture shows how far out it goes on me.
As you can probably see, I wasn't thinking and wore a black shirt. ^-^"
Anyways- Unpin one of your sides (Has to be a side piece, not a back piece)
And throw the rest of your jacket on your couch while grabbing your other fabric.
For me, this fabric was waaay bigger than the previous as shown in these two pictures
Grabbing your helper again, lay out your second fabric on the ground (keep in mind that your helper will help you A LOT in the next few steps)
Put your un-pinned black piece on top of your pretty fabric. This will be your pattern piece. Your helper may or may not need to help.
Straighten it out (with the help of your helper)
Draw a chalk line around it
As you can see, this fabric is bigger
Cut your fabric out nice and pretty like
Now at this point, you have two options-
1. Use the black pattern piece
2. Use your other piece
The reason there are two options are because if you want your patterns to look the same and match, you wouldn't want to use your black piece.
Only by coincidence did my two patterns match up
Cut out the back two pieces the same as you did the black
Pin together. I matched my stripes together, but you don't have to if you don't want.
Your helper may want to help to supervise things
Flip inside out and try on.
Once again- showed how much excess fabric I had (which is good for a coat)
Part 1- Materials
Part 3- Trying on and Trimming
