could this pattern be made in a quilt style?

If you make it quilted your fabric would not stretch like a knit and your layers might be thicker than the knitted original. That would mean you would need to increase the size of the sleeve and the distance between the sleeves for it to fit properly. Debra in VA See my quilts at

i understand bout the sleeves. as to the stretching... i guess it would have to be sized very carefully then. hmmmm, more thunk'n on that i guess. anything else i'm missing? jeanne

"Debra" wrote...

something quilted wouldn't drape the same way something knitted would

Anne

Of course you can and it will be gorgeous! Jeanne, I think you'd want to make a test run with something of similar weight. How about a hunk of fairly hefty denim or maybe an old blanket? That way you'd know if your interpretation needed to be a little wider or longer or whatever. Please do it. I can't wait to see. Polly

i thot of that. either just two layers of patchwork design on top/reversible like a summer weight quilt or if any batting is used it would have to be extremely lightweight and any quilting would have to be quite sparsely. too much quilting and it would just not bend at all. theres more to this than meets the eye. i'm think'n thru it tho. jeanne

"Anne Rogers" wrote... > something quilted wouldn't drape the same way something knitted would

Yes. Home made chenille is bendy. Polly

you might have to experiment, the weight of fabric used for quilts doesn't drape in the same way that curtain fabric does, so lightness isn't necessarily the issue, thinking about it, knitted garments are often much heavier than woven garments, but the construction definitely plays a part in it.

Anne

Cute! Might be possible, but fiddly. (Wish I could see a front view of the sweater -almost looks like the front sort of drapes into folds.) One could just cut an armseye on each side and then add proper fabric sleeves with a cap to fit well.

The problem is that a quilted piece might be too firm to drape the way it should. Instead of doing it exactly like this, you might be better off taking a normal jacket pattern and cutting it out of your quilted piece. You could easily adapt the pattern to round in the back and come up to a sort of bolero front. Make a separate shawl collar and quilt that (re-cut after quilting the top) plus sleeves. "nzlstar*" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:fb7hhu$65u$ snipped-for-privacy@lust.ihug.co.nz...

Jeanne, have you seen the Jacket Jazz series by Judy Martin? Lots of good tips for making quilted jackets. Her technique builds patchwork sections on top of a flannel base. The jacket can then be sewn together and lined without more quilting. Experience tells me that a jacket lined in cotton is very hard to wear over cotton clothing, especially in the sleeves -cotton sticks! More comfortable to line it in silk. Roberta in D

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Jeanne:

Yes, I can picture this as a sleeveless quilted jacket, but can't figure out how to add sleeves. Maybe if I made up on sleeveless model, I could move on to making the version with sleeves. Since I do not knit, I cannot figure out what is the diameter of the sweater. I would need that info to get started. If anyone has that answer, please let us know! Ta.

Choosing the right materials would be important. To be successful, one would need a very fine, drapy batting, and one would have to be careful not to have too much close quilting. The fabric should be of the softer variety, nothing cheap with too much filler. But, those are just detains ... this could be a FUN project!

PAT >

thinking how this might go together with quilting materials.... from the pix' of the jacket in use and the pix of it laid out flat at the bottom of the page.... looks to me, for an adult, the centre circle is about 7 or 8 inches across. this lays when worn around the middle of your back with half the circle coming up your back to the neck, folding down as a collar or could be (as shows where child is wearing it) as a sort of hood effect. add to the centre circle, 6 or 7 concentric circles of 'about' 3 inches in wedges. wedges are swirled in the knittle version, would they need to be as a quilt? the sleeves get inserted into the join of one section of one of the circles as shown. might need to make the sections a size that will accomodate the sleeve of course. i wonder would it work to insert sleeve using two sections if you stick with the section size shown. i'm sure this is do-able but as i am not the greatest garment maker some of it is eluding my thought processes. really now i'm just considering how this would/should go together.

i've a top mom made me years ago. a circle folded in half with a neck-hole in a T shape cut out and finished off. then stitching up either side along the body in a straight line leaving the edges hanging loose. top of the T laid across the back of neck, 'trunk' of the T laid down the front about 7 or 8 inches from the front of neck. once finished off with a bit of ribbon to tie it shut, it fit quite well. the whole thing was hemmed of course. dont know if that makes any sense. it was cool, comfortable and looked cute in summer. no longer wear it but havent gotten rid of it as yet. mom made me few clothes once i left childhood and no longer have any of those around. :( jeanne

"Roberta Zollner" wrote...

oh no, i meant this with quilted sleeves. making up the sleeves then inserting into a section of the rest of the circle. made with wedges, sorta like bargello is done in a circle, very sorta, lol, sleeves inserted, hmmmm, might need to insert quilted sleeves into a wider point than those that are knitted, eh. i hate doing mock-ups, drives me bonkers. i much prefer thunk'n it out til i cant thunk no more.

seems to me take'n into consideration the pix, both laid flat and as worn... the centre circle size looks to me about 7" or 8". then each row about 3" wide with 6... so maybe the final diametre of the circle is about 45", give or take a few. i rounded it up a bit. i could well be way off base on that too. the centre circle sits right at mid back, say around the heart position. so from there maybe measure how long you want it to be over your hips. if you wanted it really long, would have to make it an oval-ish shape...i can pix in my head but for the life of me can not explain that. hmmmmmmm, more thunk'n downunder, jeanne

"Pat > Jeanne:

reading thru the pattern just noticed this, doh, silly me.

it can also be worn two ways - as pictured above, with the longer part of the circle below the sleeves, for a long, dressy look, or with the shorter part of the circle below the sleeves for a more casual short jacket look.

hmmmmm, d> thinking how this might go together with quilting materials....

Got a 9-degree wedge ruler? Roberta in D

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I mention it because there are a number of books based on the 9-degree concept (takes 40 wedges to make a circle) and some of them explain how to do bargello-type designs. "Round About Quilts" by Michelle Watts has a design called Amish Stars that would make a great center back for your jacket. Roberta in D

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thanks, Roberta, i'll google her now and what info will add to my ideas. cheers, jeanne

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