A quilted jacket

 Dear Readers,

I have been working on a background project.  My daughter wanted a quilted jacket.  She picked a pattern and sent it to me and I made a bunch of quilt blocks and then let her pick the ones she wanted for the jacket.  She is an art director so she has a very specific look in mind and I was doing my best to fulfill it. 

So Celeste sent a pattern and I was trying to find the fabric for the jacket part and was not finding what we wanted for the jacket part.  Luckily I had a trip to Denver planned in February so I packed up my blocks, patterns and we were able to come up with fabric and a layout together.  

So we decided on this layout.  

I quilted it with rulers work on one side of the block and swirls on the other side of the block.

Now to make the jacket...

First the hood.  Then I sewed the quilted part to the jacket parts and assembled the rest of the jacket.  

I then took it to Denver and put the hem in the bottom and hemmed the sleeves to the correct length.  I have a good many blocks left so when I got home, I started kitting up enough to make a quilt.... not sure when that will get on the to do list.

I hope Celeste enjoys it.

Sew on,

Terry