#3 Fall Travel Wardrobe: Sweatshirt to Fall Jacket and "Halloween Costume"

RanchHouse Sewing Goal: *Refashion 10 Items for Fall Travel/Work Core Wardrobe.
This is #3.

Fall Travel/Work Core Wardrobe:
*Up-cycled from Pre-retirement stash. Retirement did not take; I accepted consultant work.
*Needed for:
   -Casual Work / Early Childhood Center visits; think playgrounds and 3 yrs. olds
   -Travel / 4 weeks/ four states/ six flights/ pack light.
   -Great Lakes Region; as cold as our Texas winters.

Before:  Fall t-shirt, screen printed with hand painted details. Worn in my teacher days with denim skirts, khakis. Brown sweatshirt in the fall wardrobe. Lace from the stash.

After: Fall sweatshirt for travel and business casual.
My Halloween Costume; I am going as a retired teacher.

Steps:
*Remove, sleeves, all ribbings. Cut t-shirt front/backs apart.
*Pin t- in place, stitch, serge. Fold t- over jacket front to create a facing.
  Top stitch to hold in place and create quilted effect.
*Replace  neckband.
*Add lace trim.
*Be so happy that this worked!!!

After: Jacket.
Left side is the t- back;
Right side is the t- front.

After:
Shoulder/sleeve seam

After:
Inside front, folded over, top-stitched.

After:
Outside front, top stitched.



After:
Neck band sewn back on.



After:
Lace trim.




After:
With travel jeans.
Refashioned Mom jeans.

After:
With dress pants
Refashioned from men's pants.

After:
With Dirndl Skirt
Refashioned
 from two pencil skirts,



Before:
Used a brown sweatshirt
with ribbing removed.
Green goes back to stash.

Before:
Worn with denim skirts in my teacher days.