How to make a vest from a jacket at home?

All girls love a wide variety of things, and the more, the better. Going through the wardrobe, you found your favorite jacket, which has lost its former attractive appearance: cuffs and sleeves are lost? What to do, throw it away? Of course not! From such a jacket, you can make an excellent vest sleeveless according to all modern trends. Almost any girl will be able to sew a stylish, fashionable and original little thing, even if there is no certain experience in cutting and sewing. It takes only a little zeal, imagination, and a self-made vest is ready for use. Do you want to save on buying a new vest? Then, we will help you with this. In a detailed master class, we will tell you how to change a vest from a jacket at home.

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Denim vest

It is most convenient to work with denim: it is not too dense, not capricious and easily amenable to alteration. From denim clothes you can make a mega-fashion vest with the effect of wear and torn holes. How to make a vest from a jacket?

For work, we need the following tools and materials:

• Jean jacket.
• Sewing machine.
• Slanting inlay or braid.
• Needle.
• Scissors.
• Sewing and sewing threads.
• Chalk or remnant.
• Iron and ironing pad.
• Decor elements (rhinestones, spikes, lace).

Having prepared all the necessary materials, we begin to alter the denim jacket into a vest:

• First of all, you need to remove the sleeves. To do this, we retreat 2-3 cm from the very edge of the shoulder seam and draw a line of the armhole of our future product.

Important! It makes no sense to steam the sleeves - in any case, the cut of the armhole needs to be slightly modified.

• Next - carefully trim the sleeve along the intended cut line.
• Now we bend the shoulder edge about 1-2 cm, we perform a straight line on the typewriter.

Important! The edges of the vest can be overlocked or sewn with braid, oblique trim or other decorative elements, for example, lace. You can make a vest with shabby shoulders, make cuts in some places or decorate with a finished fringe - it is now so fashionable!

• We apply the tape face to face directly on the cut of the armhole.
• We carry out a machine line at 0.5 cm.
• The next step - we turn out the seam and sweep the edging.
• After that, we fix the seam with the usual machine line.
• Using an iron, we steam off a denim vest.

Important! For the convenience of steaming with an iron, use a cushion-pad or pad-sleeve, which is included with the ironing board.

• Getting to the decor: we decorate the corners of the collar with stones and set off the shoulders with spikes.

That's all. Now you know how to make a vest from your jacket with your own hands. Stylish denim vest is ready, now you can brag to your friends a new new thing!

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Bologna vest

Do you doubt that the old Bologna jacket can serve for more than one year? In vain you think so. From it you can get a stylish vest from a jacket with your own hands. Having changed the old jacket into a comfortable vest, you will give it a second life in your wardrobe. How to do this without spending a lot of time?

The step-by-step process of sewing a Bologna vest:

• To get started, evaporate the sleeves of the base and the lining of the jacket.

Important! When the jacket filler has lost its former shape or has stopped warming, it must be replaced with a synthetic winterizer or holofiber.

• If necessary, we adjust the line of the armhole - the same as in the case of a denim vest, or we sew the shoulder seams a little.
• After that, we sweep the armhole and hem the lining with hidden stitches.

Important! If you want, you can replace the zipper in the vest if it is out of order, or repair it by slightly pressing the side parts of the walker (if the zipper diverges or there is a fuzzy closing line).

Just a little time spent and we have a comfortable vest for evening walks ready!

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How to make a vest out of a down jacket with your own hands?

The sleeves of your favorite synthetic winter jacket were rubbed, and holes formed under your hands? How to get out of the situation? Can throw a jacket away? Drive these thoughts from yourself, as this problem is completely solvable.

So, let's get to work:

• First of all, we unwrap all the shoulder seams.
• After that, we cut off the unnecessary fabric and synthetic winterizer, align the armholes along the outlined lines. There are several ways to hem the armholes: fold the edges inside the top layer and the insulation, make the markings manually, connect all the edges and sew on a typewriter.

Important! This method is simple and has a place for existence, but the armholes processed in this way will be a little taut and not very neat.

• It processes the armholes in advance with a slanting inlay or decorative braid.
• Sew the tape on the front side to the lining of the vest, after - bend it on the front side, iron and sew.
• Thus, like the previous half, we sew the second part of the vest until two processed halves are formed.
• After processing the armhole, it is necessary to sew the bottom of the lining using a blind stitch.

Do-it-yourself vest from a synthetic winterizer jacket is ready!

Important! If your zipper closes tight enough, you can simply rub it with wax from a regular candle or with a pencil, if one is available. These methods do an excellent job of this problem. Do not forget that the stylus is more suitable for zippers of dark tones, since traces that will spoil the appearance of the vest will be visible on the lightning.

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Faux Leather Vest

Leatherette jackets have weak points - pockets, axillary zone and abrasions along the seam line. How many do not repair the jacket, it will still be torn in the same places. And then the thought comes up of how to sew a leather vest from an old jacket.

To sew a vest, you need to prepare the following tools:

• Sharp scissors.
• Sewing machine.
• Needle for hand sewing.
• Machine needle (for skin).
• A piece of chalk.
• Tailor pins.
• Ironing pad.
• Cotton fabric flap (for ironing).
• Threads for basting and for machine stitching.
• Sunflower oil and ear stick.

When all the materials have been prepared, we proceed to the phased master class:

• At the very beginning, we evaporate the sleeves and fold the jacket in half - in this way the backs and shelves are compatible.
• Next, we straighten the lining and pin it off with pins with the base.
• We unfasten the bottom of the former jacket and turn the product around - you need to connect the armholes of the lining and the base.
• After that, we combine the shoulder and side seams with each other.
• The next step is to sweep the armhole of the upper material and the lining together and connect the fabric on the sewing machine.
• In the places of rounding we make notches, not reaching the seam of about 0.2 cm.
• Turn the vest completely out.
• Now we sweep the edging along the armholes and continue on to the finishing line.

Important! Before basting the edging, check for skin punctures from the needle. If the punctures have already been made, then do the stitching in the same places along which the finishing machine line will pass.

• When the edging is processed, we proceed to the firmware of the finishing line.

Important! Since the fabric is made of artificial leather, the claw of the machine moved intermittently, and sometimes did not want to work at all. In this case, it is necessary to lubricate the skin surface at the place of the stitches with ordinary sunflower oil. After this procedure, the machine will obey, and the foot - slide “like clockwork”.

• Now, fasten back the bottom of the lining.
• After basting the finishing lines on both openings, we remove all the temporary stitches.
• We carefully iron the armholes with an iron, I use cotton fabric, so as not to accidentally damage the material with the sole of the iron.

Important! Do not forget to check the temperature of the iron for any type of skin. You can practice on a flap of a similar fabric, if one is available. Try not to leave the iron in one place for a long time - this can completely melt the skin.

• After we ironed the armholes, we check once again the quality of their processing, and then we process the bottom of the product with hidden stitches.
• At the final stage, we decorate the leather vest as your design imagination allows.

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A few hours of quite simple and fascinating work, and you have in your hands a stylish warm vest made from an old jacket that you once wanted to throw away. Now you can wear a vest with a turtleneck or dress, or you can dress in nature with friends. If you use original ideas and ingenuity, it is possible to create a whole design solution - to combine, for example, fur and leather. By the way, do not throw out sleeves either - they will be needed to remake other things. We wish you good luck and creative success!