Denim jacket...

[crumbear]

Here's a jacket I embroidered quite awhile ago using a couple of the paisley designs from the site. It took 12 hours of computer work to edit and get the designs combined to exactly how I wanted them, and 18 hours to stitch out.

I've worn it once. :eek:

http://www.mydivadesigns.com/jacket.jpg

http://www.mydivadesigns.com/jacket2.jpg

[sewamy]

OMG, this is sew cute. I can't believe you've only worn it once. Awesome work.

[deesmom]

Such a shame to do all that work and only wear it once. I tend to do the same thing, though. Not that I sew for me. But it seems like if I put too much time in an outfit for the kids, I am sick of seeing it by the time they have worn it once.

The jacket looks great. I am impressed!!

[Totally Tammy]

The jacket is great/ My daughter would love it! Keep up the good work!

[ajsmom]

Incredible! That is gorgeous... I think if I had put that much into it, I would even wear it to sleep in. Love the colors!

LS

[SusanMcD]

Forget wearing it: hang it on the wall! Gorgeous. My girlfriend used the Dolly Mama designs on a denim jacket...I'll ask her to post a photo.

[Pamsquilt]

Congratulations - it looks fabulous. Paisley is one of my all-time favourite designs so I guess I'm biased, but that aside you did a fantastic job.

[debi@thebeach]

That is beautiful! Since you're not wearing it...can I borrow it?!?!?!?!?;)
Debi
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[fun2sew]

Wow... How long did it take to stitch out?
That must have been an all day project!

[SewFanatic]

That is simply gorgeous. You probably could get into the book of records for 18 hours to stitch out!

[ShirleyC]

Oh wow! That was a lot of work, but beautiful results.

[starsite]

Now that is a labor of love! How long did it take to make and how many hoopings?

Wendy

[crumbear]

Thanks for all the kind words, I really appreciate it! To answer a few questions...

3 hoopings total. I did the design in 3 tiers starting at the bottom and working my way up. 18 hours of embroidery time, and because of the weight of the jacket, I had to babysit it the entire time. No, I didn't do it in one sitting! I would have driven myself crazy if I had! :D

[deesmom]

Wow. You have more patience than I. ;)

[ewigginton]

Since I'm still really new to embroidery, can you tell me about the editing you had to do? I'm intrigued ...

[crumbear]

dee, if you'd ever met my husband, you'd know I have the patience of Job. :p


ewig, I've found I edit a majority of the designs that I use. For the jacket, I obviously needed a much larger design, so I combined, copied & pasted, etc. until I had the size I needed that would fit my largest hoop. I had to cut out some parts of the design in many places so it would fit together like a puzzle. I took some parts out and added them to other places. It really was like a jigsaw puzzle. Tedious work, but worth it. :)

Jen

[ewigginton]

Please forgive, still a newbie. What program are you cutting and pasting in?

[ewigginton]

Not fair, Crumbear! How'd you get your state in your post???

[crumbear]

Ewig, just go edit your profile and add the state in. :)

As for the editing software, I use the 4D Professional system from Viking. Love it!

[rubiesnana]

All i can say is wow,that is beautiful.
Pam:)

[ewigginton]

Not that I think Dallas is a state or anything....I think I was a little tired when I posted that last night.

[NanaSewn]

Great job and stick-to-it ivness!:)

[crumbear]

"Not that I thought Dallas was a state or anything"...

Lol! Ya'll crack me up! :D

[Boo Grandma]

I use the 4D Professional also and love it. I'm hoping to get alot better at digitizing and editing. I took my first .jpg last week and digitized it for my daughter. She was impressed. It was a logo for her friend's birthday.

[sew blessed]

I use buzz tools to edit with.

[Roberta Rowden]

Hello, I'm the new kid on the block. Love the Jacket!!! OMG! It is just beautiful:) I am new to embroidery. My mom passed away Oct 2006 :( and left me all her sewing stuff. Among which there was a Brother PE 200 Embroidery Machine (Snoopy), brand new, still in the box, never been opened!! Thanks for letting me share. Happy Thanksgiving

[Jami Johnson]

Welcome to our website. I'm sorry the hear about your Mom. Be careful getting into Embroidery, it's very addictive. If you don't believe me, just check out the "Are you a hoarder" thread. http://www.embroidables.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81

I noticed that you are from Washington. If you have the time, you should try to go to Sewexpo in Feb. http://www.sewexpo.com/

We're glad to have you here. I'm sure that you'll make a lot of friends.

[Roberta Rowden]

;) Thanks for the info. I'll keep the links for later. I've onlly done three little things and it's too late...I'm way hooked!!:D I get insomnia every once in awhile, so here I am. thanks jamie. later

[marilynd]

That is beautiful. You put so much time and work into it. You should wear it everyday!

[pcsews]

Wow....pretty jacket!! I don't have the patience to try something like that!!! You did an awesome job!!!

[SewAddicted]

That jacket is the BEST! I would never take it off! :)
Pam

[Honeybee]

You did a beautiful job on that

[rodneytb]

That is absolutely amazing!

[crumbear]

Thanks so much for all the compliments, I really appreciate it!

[rosebud314]

Wow, that must have taken a really long time. Very pretty, so very colorful.

[MackandMorgan's Mom]

That is outstanding...I cannot believe you had the patience to do that!! YOU GO!!

[T-Bags & Rags]

CrumBear,

Gorgeous! You should wear that and often!

[Sew-Magic]

Wow! wow! wow! What a lot of work

[crumbear]

I use the 4D Professional also and love it. I'm hoping to get alot better at digitizing and editing. I took my first .jpg last week and digitized it for my daughter. She was impressed. It was a logo for her friend's birthday.

The 4D digitizing is much more user friendly than the 3D was by far. I really like it!

[twin mom]

Wow!

That was a lot of work. I was at the fabric store a few days ago, and someone embroidered a coordinating jacket and jeans. She removed in inner leg seam, then embroidered the coordinating design up the outer leg side seam and along the hem. So very cute. I'd like to use the same idea and make a pair of jeans and jacket using the gingerbread house and gingerbread designs. Chances are looking pretty slim that I'll get it done by Christmas, though.

Keep up the good work!

[Pamsquilt]

Beautiful work - great placement of designs and great colour choices. 12 out of 10! It is one of the nicest denim jackets I have ever seen. Did you embroider on the front too? Can we see that too, please?
Pam

[edgewood mom]

That jacket is so beautiful! Did you have to do more than one hooping? I've still never had the guts to try something that I would have to rehoop or line anything up---still just a newbie! --SS

[delizabeth1951]

Awesome Jacket!!!! Love it!

[crumbear]

Pam, there's nothing on the front of the jacket.

Edgewood, I only had to rehoop twice. Three total hoopings!

[Mabel]

Oh my goodness, that's gorgeous!

[nanamcd]

All I can say is WOW! I bought an extra denim jacket and a great design in hopes of doing the back yoke of the jacket...but that project never got started. I'm the Queen of Indecision - couldn't make color choices, so no jacket :(

[mythreesons92]

fabulous !!!!

[mdquilter]

I just love this jacket back!! One day I hope to do something that amazing myself! Thanks for sharing

[kurthco]

Wow that is awesome! I bet you get a ton of complements on it. Best thing is..its one of a kind!

[idesign]

OMG! What a work of art on that jacket. Gorgeous colors and designs of course! Definitely wear it more often, or frame it in an acrylic case and hang it on the wall--LOL.

[fun2sew]

I cannot see the jacket... maybe not embroidables designs?

[Yeffie]

I saw it earlier, adn thought I commented--

I know that is a peice to be proud of! I cannot imagine the man hours it went into it!

Good job!

[fun2sew]

I dont see it either???

What happened?

[LottieJo]

Beautiful work.

[sew4fun]

WOW!! That must have take forever!! Great job!!

[crumbear]

I cannot see the jacket... maybe not embroidables designs?
No ma'am, it's all embroidables designs. I can see it, so I'm not sure why it's acting finicky for you. I promise it's there! :)

[JenZ]

No ma'am, it's all embroidables designs. I can see it, so I'm not sure why it's acting finicky for you. I promise it's there! :)

ooooOOOOoooHHH.....maybe it is a GHOST jacket?? j/k

I love what you did although it is not my style. I have often looked at the paisley embroidables designs and thought they would look sharp on denim (like on a little pair of jeans for my niece)...you proved me right! And I looooove being right!

[Sew 'N Sane]

Crum - I LOVE your jacket. It makes me wish I had a much larger embroidery field so I could do something like that without have to hoop 20 times.

I know you said it took 18 hours to embroider, but how many stitches were there?

I have a jacket that I embroidered on (not embroidable designs :( ) that I donated to a silent auction. I don't remember how many hours it took to make, but it had over 250,000 embroidery stitches. The person in charge of the silent auction obviously had no appreciation for the work I put into the jacket, because she put the starting price at $25! :eek: I ended up buying the jacket for myself for $30. I guarantee that I won't be wasting my talent on something like that again....:mad:

[JenZ]

I have a jacket that I embroidered on (not embroidable designs :( ) that I donated to a silent auction. I don't remember how many hours it took to make, but it had over 250,000 embroidery stitches. The person in charge of the silent auction obviously had no appreciation for the work I put into the jacket, because she put the starting price at $25! :eek: I ended up buying the jacket for myself for $30. I guarantee that I won't be wasting my talent on something like that again....:mad:

I know how you feel, I just made some things for our silent auction at work and I am afraid of what they are going to start the bidding at. Last year the woman in charge set the starting bids ridiculously low. This year the two women I work with promised me that the starting bids would be set higher. If they had not I would not have made anything for it.

[Sew 'N Sane]

I know that people want to get great deals at Silent Auctions, but by placing the starting price so low, I don't think anybody really appreciated the value of the jacket. I told her that it should start at $75, and she put the value at $75. The jacket itself cost $25!

Another thing that drove me crazy was that one mom spent $200 on a pair of Coach sunglasses for her 16 year old daughter! How nuts can you be to spend that kind of money on something your child is likely to lose or break!!!

Oh well, I feel like I got the best end of the bargain because I helped out the group and I got to keep my work of art..:p

[JenZ]

Well thing is if it is for charity aren't people eager to give more? We do a silent auction at school and if something's value is $50 it will usually go for $70 because purse strings are a little looser when it comes to charity.

And what do you think are the odds of that 16 year old appreciating the value of those 200 dollar sunglasses....I could go into a rant about how we did not get a phone in our house till I turned 16 and my mamma was lucky to make 200 dollars in two weeks waiting tables at the local crapp restaurant...
needlesss to say, spoilt teenagers really tick me off.

[Sew 'N Sane]

Jen I know what you mean about spoiled teenagers. I certainly wouldn't spend that on one of my kids.

My 18 year old son learned the value of the dollar this past summer. He CHOSE to not do some of his work in one of his classes and he ended up having to take 2 sessions of summer school. Mean mom that I am, I made him get a job and pay me back. After all, it wasn't my fault that he failed. Needless to say, ever since he started working he hasn't asked me for a thing! I can't wait for the rest of my kids to be old enough to work!:p

[dana]

The jacket is beautiful. I can not imagine how much time and patience that took. I think I am still too new and have too much fear to try something of that magnitude. Impressive!
I agree with the others- it's too bad you only wore it once.

[alissa]

Beautiful work.

[nanamcd]

I've had an idea for the yoke of a denim jacket for over a year. I am officially inspired to GET IT DONE! This is truly beautiful. I'd never take it off :)

[tthuis]

Wow, I want to get my nerve up and try something like this. I'm just a little chicken..........Terry

[StitchinGrandma]

Wow, I want to get my nerve up and try something like this. I'm just a little chicken..........Terry
Go buy a jacket in the thrift stores and test out on that. If it works and the jacket isn't one you'd wear, donate it back to the homeless mission in town. Then go buy a new one and make one you love. ;)

[Rickey]

The jacket is so pretty. The combination of colors and the swirl patterns make it really unique. I know you said it was 18 hours in stitchings, but how many hoopings did it take? You really should wear it more often -- I love it.

[just_teachin]

Go buy a jacket in the thrift stores and test out on that. If it works and the jacket isn't one you'd wear, donate it back to the homeless mission in town. Then go buy a new one and make one you love. ;)

What a great idea!!!

[hardworkfhe]

How long did it take to do all that work?

[hardworkfhe]

Oh forgot, It's just beautiful!

[sew4fun]

Wow!! That is Great!! Love the colors you choose! I was also wondering how many hoopings it took to do the whole back?

[vickidufromjaja]

This is a gorgeous piece of art work---absolutely stunning. I was not into those designs that much but after seeing this, I have changed my mind!

[NJMo]

Oh my - this is just incredible. I am tickled when I get one design on one project and think I am doing great. You should be very proud of yourself. This is a piece of art.

[carmelite]

wow! i bought a denim jacket last year just to embroider. still haven't got my sewing room back but soon!
no way i'll get something together like this. immediately was knocked out by the designs being woven together so beautiful. what talent!
mine will probably have some sewing babies on it! and sew some text on the back but have to figure out what would mean something to me. maybe "guppy" in honor of our adorable new teardrop trailer!
cheers! e

[Luciana]

this is very well done!!!
You are the one that loves to work HARD, I am like you.
It really looks like you put just one time at machine!!
Congratulations

[ccdoster]

It was definitely worth the effort it looks wonderful.

[danamom4]

Absolutely exquisite.
Two questions
1. How many stitches/color changes
2. Do you ever wear it?

[StitchinGrandma]

Absolutely exquisite.
Two questions
1. How many stitches/color changes
2. Do you ever wear it?

I'm not sure if she's still here but hopefully she has her profile set to receive emails for threads she's posted in so she'll come back. She hasn't visited the board since September though so we'll see her soon hopefully.

[mythreesons92]

Breathtaking....

[lotto64]

Wow!!! That is a lot of time and work, but it turned out gorgeous!! I'd have to wear it a lot and show it off. You will get lots of compliments.

[valducci]

:cool: Your jacket is sooo cooool that I would never take it off. NEVER I tell you. You must wear it and show it off. Great work! ;>D

[Jen]

Absolutely exquisite.
Two questions
1. How many stitches/color changes
2. Do you ever wear it?

Oh my gosh, I've been so busy, sorry! I had a boy in June of last year, and am due for a little girl in a few months. Needless to say, I'm a little tired. Lol! To answer your questions, I think there were something like near 80+ color changes, 100,000+ stitches, and nope, never wear it. I had it on display at the sewing gallery I worked at, but that's about it. I think I've worn it once. I was so fed up with it by the time I was done, that I just didn't want to look at it any longer. :eek: