Mad Quilter's
Newborn Overlap Jacket
Click HERE to Download PDF Pattern
This little jacket is simply fastened at the neck with two snaps.
It overlaps to cover baby.
It is lined which saves you finishing seams, making it more comfortable for baby and reversible when finished with snaps.
Print the Pattern
Make sure you aren't scaling the pattern when you print.
Join the front pattern pieces as indicated on the pattern.
Cutting
Cut two of back on fold. One of fabric and one of lining.
Cut four of front, fabric right sides together. Two of fabric and two of lining.
I use interfacing for my patterns, saves me pinning as the interfacing tends to stay put.
Construction
Sew the lining and fabric in the same way, constructing two little jackets.
These are placed right sides together and turned through the sleeve openings.
As detailed below.
Sew the shoulder seams first.
Matching the neckline and sleeve end. Sew with a 6mm seam allowance.
Sew the sleeve and side seams. Pivot on the curve to make it smooth.
Clip the underarm, I used pinking shears but you can just clip carefully to the seam line in the curve.
You will have two little jackets.
Turn the lining to the right side.
Slip the lining into the fabric jacket.
Matching all points, pin around the neck, front and hem opening.
As in the photo above.
Sew all the way around starting and finishing at the back of the neck
Trim and clip the curves.
Turn the jacket to the right side through one of the sleeves.
Roll the edges out with your fingers and press them with the iron.
Top stitch 2 or 3 mm's from the edge all the way around.
I do this to make washing and ironing easier and to reinforce the seams.
Sew the fabric and lining sleeves together, matching seams.
Fold the sleeve edge towards the lining twice enclosing the raw edge.
You can choose to pin into place.
Sew the sleeve hem.
Now there a couple of spots your machine isn't going to like to sew over. They are at the seams where you have many layers of fabric meeting, sew this seam very carefully. You may have to lift your pressure foot to get over the bumps.
An alternative to finishing the sleeves is to bind them with bias binding.
You may find this easier.
I have a tutorial on binding with bias HERE.
Press the sleeves with the iron.
Time to add the snaps. You can use buttons and button holes.
The snaps are added at the top of the opening as shown in the photo above.
Newborn Overlap Jacket
Click HERE to Download PDF Pattern
This little jacket is simply fastened at the neck with two snaps.
It overlaps to cover baby.
It is lined which saves you finishing seams, making it more comfortable for baby and reversible when finished with snaps.
Print the Pattern
Make sure you aren't scaling the pattern when you print.
Join the front pattern pieces as indicated on the pattern.
Cutting
Cut two of back on fold. One of fabric and one of lining.
Cut four of front, fabric right sides together. Two of fabric and two of lining.
I use interfacing for my patterns, saves me pinning as the interfacing tends to stay put.
Construction
Sew the lining and fabric in the same way, constructing two little jackets.
These are placed right sides together and turned through the sleeve openings.
As detailed below.
Sew the shoulder seams first.
Matching the neckline and sleeve end. Sew with a 6mm seam allowance.
Sew the sleeve and side seams. Pivot on the curve to make it smooth.
Clip the underarm, I used pinking shears but you can just clip carefully to the seam line in the curve.
You will have two little jackets.
Turn the lining to the right side.
Slip the lining into the fabric jacket.
Matching all points, pin around the neck, front and hem opening.
As in the photo above.
Sew all the way around starting and finishing at the back of the neck
Trim and clip the curves.
Turn the jacket to the right side through one of the sleeves.
Roll the edges out with your fingers and press them with the iron.
Top stitch 2 or 3 mm's from the edge all the way around.
I do this to make washing and ironing easier and to reinforce the seams.
Sew the fabric and lining sleeves together, matching seams.
Fold the sleeve edge towards the lining twice enclosing the raw edge.
You can choose to pin into place.
Sew the sleeve hem.
Now there a couple of spots your machine isn't going to like to sew over. They are at the seams where you have many layers of fabric meeting, sew this seam very carefully. You may have to lift your pressure foot to get over the bumps.
An alternative to finishing the sleeves is to bind them with bias binding.
You may find this easier.
I have a tutorial on binding with bias HERE.
Press the sleeves with the iron.
Time to add the snaps. You can use buttons and button holes.
The snaps are added at the top of the opening as shown in the photo above.
COPYRIGHT
It's ok to make these for sale
It's ok to share the pattern
please don't post the pattern on your site or anywhere else.
Please link to this blog post.
Don't sell the pattern
Don't claim it as yours.
All drafts and blocks have been kept by me to confirm this is an original pattern of mine.
These are my trial garments.
Notice how I changed the neckline by lowering it, in the second attempt.
The third attempt I lengthened the jacket and lowered the neckline once more.
It's really all trial and error.
Don't feel afraid of having a go at designing baby garments for yourself.
It's a lot of fun.
It's great sewing practice and you can recycle pillowcases and linens bought at op-shops for very little.
It's ok to make these for sale
It's ok to share the pattern
please don't post the pattern on your site or anywhere else.
Please link to this blog post.
Don't sell the pattern
Don't claim it as yours.
All drafts and blocks have been kept by me to confirm this is an original pattern of mine.
These are my trial garments.
Notice how I changed the neckline by lowering it, in the second attempt.
The third attempt I lengthened the jacket and lowered the neckline once more.
It's really all trial and error.
Don't feel afraid of having a go at designing baby garments for yourself.
It's a lot of fun.
It's great sewing practice and you can recycle pillowcases and linens bought at op-shops for very little.
3 comments:
I love this little pattern of yours Tracy, it is so cute and such an easy thing to dress a bubby in! I have two newborns to sew for at the moment and I can see a couple of these being whipped up very soon!
Thanks for being so generous and sharing this pattern with us :)
Ali
that is so cute, I love the fabric choice again....
Gill in Canada
Pity.....but no one I know is at the baby stage right now.
One who wanted to be is back having chemo and the cells that were fertilized did not freeze...
so sad for them.
They have one little girl.
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