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Today I'm gonna show you how I made a bomber
This tutorial show work for any bomber
but mine just happens to be white mesh with a monogram on the back
I've seen quite a few bombers lately
and I just wanted to mix it up a little and one that's white mesh
There are a lot of steps, but it's really not too hard
You just need a sweater that fits you well
to model as the base for the jacket
I have a link in the description box below
It has the written out steps and a couple more photos for you
if you wanted to see the jacket from more angles
If you want to see how I did the monogram on the back of the jacket
just stick around to the end of the tutorial
It's super easy ♥
Starting with the mesh fabric
I first folded it in half
Lay on a sweater that I already owned and fits me great
And then cut all the way around, leaving 1 centimeter extra
The sweater that I modeled this off of
was a drop shoulder sweater
so the armhole is a little bit different than what you might be used to
With that same sweater I cut out two matching front pieces
that are symmetrical
Again following the exact shape of the sweater
but leaving 1 centimeter extra all the way around
Then I cut down the middle to separate them into
into two symmetrical pieces
And finally, there's the sleeves
Again I did this by folding the mesh in half
laying on the sweater sleeve and then
tracing and cutting all the way around
leaving 1 centimeter extra on the bottom and sides
Moving on from the mesh, the other thing you'll need is a zipper
It has to be long enough cover your entire front
and opens at the bottom
Because, otherwise you won't be able to get in and out of your jacket
You'll also need some knit tubing that is in a matching color
I have here all this white knitted tubing
and with this we are ready to go
Put down the back piece with the right side facing up
And then the two front pieces with the right sides facing down
So the right sides are touching
We're going to sew them together with a straight stitch
along the two shoulders
Open that up so that you're looking at the top of the shoulder
and then take the sleeves with them, folded in half
lay them down so that they're symmetrically along that exact shoulder point
We're going to sew from there outwards to the front
and outwards to the back using a straight stitch
When you're sewing over the shoulder
make sure that the raw edges of that shoulder seam are opened up completely
and that will help your jacket lay flat when you're wearing it
When you're done going down the front and the back
Here's how it's gonna look from the top
Next up, bring everything right sides together
and sew all along the bottom edge of the sleeve and the side
Sealing off the left and right side of the jacket
When you're getting to the armpit
make sure that that armpit seam is totally lined up
I usually start at that exact armpit seam
and go down the side and then down the sleeve
That way, it makes sure armpit seam is totally aligned
Here you may have noticed that my front and back are different lengths
and not lined up perfectly at the bottom
After this I just gave the back a little trim
and they were totally aligned again
Now that the sides are all cleaned up
we can add the bottom waistband to the bomber
I cut some knit tubing that fits comfortably around my hips
but is a little bit shorter in length than the actual bottom of the jacket
I pinned this, right sides together, along the center point of the jacket
to make sure that it lays symmetrically
and then started at one of the far ends
sewing it down with a zigzag stitch all the way around
After putting it into the machine
I pull on that part that I pinned that's along the center point
of the the back and used that to gauge
where the knit needs to line up with the mesh
So that the tension is even along the entire bottom
For the tubing, I usually cut it to be 5 inches wide
And that's just because when it's folded in half
You get 2 inches plus half an inch seam allowance
Then I cut it to the length that is suitable for the item I'm trying to fit with
So when it comes to the wrist
I make sure it's comfortable around my wrist
Can actually slide all the way up to the elbows because
otherwise you can't roll up your sleeves
And then take that, right sides together, and sew it down along the short edge
Once that's done, I reach in, open up the seam with my fingers
and then fold the entire thing in half, to hide away the seams
Now you can tuck that over the open end of the sleeve
I like to line up the seam that is on cuff to
the seam that is on the sleeve
And then pin those all the way around, right sides together
even though on the cuff, technically both sides are right sides
I usually start pinning at the seam, and then
do some stretching of the cuff all the way around
so that I know where to pin the other one, while keeping the tension even
Do a zigzag stitch all the way around the loop
and that will sew the mesh sleeve to the cuff
Once all the zigzag stitching is done, flip the cuff downwards
and now your cuffs are finished
The next step is to do the zippers
First, I open up the zippers completely
and then assign them to each proper side of the jacket
Take the bottom waistband and fold it in half
then pin the zipper so that it starts at the fold
I make sure the raw edges at the bottom of the waistband
are pointing downwards and then continue pinning
all the way up the jacket
When you're pinning, you want to pin it, so that
the teeth side of the zipper is far away from the raw edge
and touching the jacket
Once more on the other side, fold the waistband in half
and then start the zipper at the bottom of the fold
Then make sure that the raw edges of that waistband
are pointing downwards when you pin
and go all the way up the jacket again
After I pin up both sides, I like to give it a zip up
and zip down to make sure that everything looks nice and even
You may have a little bit of extra fabric at the top
depending on how long the zipper is
Don't worry too much about that, as long as it's symmetrical, it's okay
The last step is to pull out the bottom pin on both sides of the waistband
And that's just because we want to sew the zipper
to the waistband without any fold in the waistband
So go down both sides with a straight stitch
Okay
Now it is time to fold up the bottom waistband
tucking away the raw edges
pinning down all the way and sewing it with a straight stitch
We save this one 'til last because it helps to
hide away the raw edges of the bottom of the jacket
and also the raw edges that are closer to the zipper
To pin, I tuck in about a centimeter of the waistband fabric
Bring it over so that it's lined up with the waistband fabric
on the outside of the jacket and then add a pin right there
On the sides of the waistband that are touching the zipper
you'll have to fold in both sides to make a folded corner
I like to fold the horizontal edge first and then
tuck in the zipper side second
To sew, we're going to go up beside of the zipper
across the entire waistband and then back down
on the other side of the zipper
Use a straight stitch and don't be afraid to go
nice and slow for this part because you want it to look
super clean
It's a good idea to flip it over every so often
to check that everything looks good on the outside
before you keep going
Because, if anything is going off track
It's better to spot it earlier on and stop stitching, fix it
Otherwise you're going to wait all the way 'til the end
to find out there's things you have to fix
From here I also added another straight stitch
along the mesh fabric that's touching the zipper
Just to really fix it in place with the zipper
and make sure that the seam lies nice and flat
Repeating on the other side
I added that same straight stitch just a short distance
away from the folded edge of the mesh
so that I could help it be totally fixed to the zipper
☻AND NOW FOR THE COLLAR!!☻
For collars, I usually cut knit tubing that is 3 inches wide
that way when it's folded in half, you get about
1 inch of collar and ½ inch to work with for seam allowance
I take this, fold it in half twice
So that I'm bringing the two raw edges together
and use a pair of scissors to cut out a slight curve
that ends with a short edge
You can take this and pin it to the open collar at the top of the jacket
I always cut this white piece to just be a little bit shorter
than the total circumference of the collar hole
and that helps to give it a little bit of tension
so that it looks good in the end
As per usual, whenever I'm sewing something with tension
I try to start with center points and that just help me
to make sure everything stays symmetrical
So I pin it once along the back and then add 2 more pins
along the front
After that, I stretch it out evenly
pinning along the way so that it's going all the way around the collar
After everything was pinned, I actually
readjusted the pins a little bit
That was just so that I could flip up the collar and see how it looks
I'm gonna go ahead and add a zigzag stitch
all the way around
Then, similar to what we did with the zippers
after I was done, that zigzag stitch, I went once more time
around with a straight stitch, sealing that mesh to the collar fabric
all the way around to help it lay super flat
The last step on the jacket is to cut off any excess fabric
that was near the collar, zip this thing up
to make sure it zips up properly
♥AND YOU'RE DONE!!♥
It is time to move on to the monogram
Okay. So I'm going to show you how I do my monograms
and it's a bit of tips and tricks that I've accumulated over time
What I do is I find a font that I like
This one I just increase the zoom
until it got to the size of "WENDY" that I appreciated
Then I maxed out the brightness, lay a piece of paper over it
and traced out with a pen, all of the shapes
The tracing is done, so I'm gonna cut out all the letters with a pair of scissors
Grab the fabric that you would like to do the letters on
In this case, it was a white faux fur fabric
Then, flip the letters over, so that they
are mirrored and not the way they're normally suppose to be read
This is very important, because if you skip this step
you're gonna end up with backwards letters
I traced around all of the letters and then
started cutting all the way around
Since this is faux fur, I have to be really careful
With faux fur, you always have to cut only the backing
and not the fur
So you keep having to slide the scissors in little by little
to only cut the backing and this is so that when you
pull them apart, it doesn't shed all over the place
and you're just separating them along the base
where they're all attached
Once they're all cut out, you should flip them over
and they should be reading properly at this point
We're going to glue them onto the back of my bomber
The glue that I used is called, "OK to wash it"
So, hopefully this is the right glue to be using on clothing
I lay out all of the letters and go gently with the glue
Not globbing on a lot, especially with mesh
because you don't want the glue to leak through
and get all over the jacket
And my trick when it comes to taking away a letter
but remembering where it's suppose to go
is laying down a white piece of paper to match up with
the exact corner that I need the letter to go back to
and that way when I put back the "E"
I just remember to lock it into that same corner
and hopefully it won't have lost it's spot
Let the whole thing dry overnight
and it should be ready for you to wear!
Hope you enjoy your brand new bomber ☻
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Similar to this kind of style, I actually already uploaded a
varsity jacket tutorial that has a monogram and leather sleeve
That's all I have for today
♥Thank you so much for watching♥
I'll see you all next time...bye ☻