Craft Booth

As I mentioned in my last post, I have rented a small booth at the Plano Antique Mall. It is a fabulous place I have enjoyed shopping at so thought I would see how well I can do there. Having this booth has focused my planning so currently it is filled with purses. Not exclusively, but dominantly. As I have planned this, I have been greatly excited by the prospect of creating a line of denim jackets.

I have done a few jackets in the past and am now exploring a variety of possible techniques.  I just finished a guy’s jacket; it is a wonderful country-styled denim, with a yoke across the back shoulder blades. I took parts of an ubber soft, but thicker cotton camo button down shirt and added them to the denim. It has become a simple but awesome, one of a kind jacket.

Here you can see most of the front – the overlay of the lapel and one of the pockets. It was important to me to retain use of the pockets but they are such an awesome way to accessorize I had to USE them!

The sleeve cuff of the denim has been covered with the button-hole plat from the front of the camo shirt. Here is a close-up that shows the detail the plat adds to the denim sleeve. In this shot it is very obvious what part of the camo shirt was used but it does not standout in the full view.

Lastly, you see the front view of the completed jacket. I didn’t get a shot of the back but the camo was also used to overlay the yoke on the back also. Voila! A terrific jacket for a young country boy. A statement of fashion and recycling that reflects NO femininity which is harder to pull off than you might think! Enjoy!

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