Hey everyone, it's me Wendy in today's video
I'm going to show you how to add a Sherpa lining to any jacket mine is a denim jacket that I thrifted
But you could do this with a variety of jackets Sherpa and shearling sometimes get mixed up
But shearling is real fur whereas Sherpa is like fake shearling since both of them are really warm
it's really good for cold weather or
Transitional weather and the medications Sherpa is way more affordable much easier to get your hands on because it's more common
So if you're able to find some Sherpa give this a try and we'll be back at the end to show you how it all
looks
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Thrifted my jacket and tried to get an oversized fit
It does give a bit more flexibility for layering, and I tend to like the baggy err look for Sherpa jackets
My Sherpa fabric came like this with a black backing, but I wanted the fabric to be as flexible as possible
So I figured out that I can tear off the black layer. I'll do that though after we cut out all the pieces we need
Before you start cutting make sure you're also using a sharp knife
And cut from the back only this will really help to reduce the faux fur mess the Sherpa layer will include four pieces
starting with the back
I traced this out of the back of the denim jacket
And I gave an extra one and a half to two
Centimetres all the way around it is much easier to trace if you flip your jacket inside out
So you can get a good look at the seams and as you can see here
There's some extra faux fur going all the way around
the next two pieces were the front left and right
these I also traced with an extra one and a half to two centimetres all the way around and
I included even more fabric along the front middle
That's to keep my options open for how to finish the button flap since there's a couple of different ways that you could do it
You should also note that the armholes are not necessarily the same curve from the front to the back
So make sure you trace each piece
The last piece to cut out is the collar this I traced with two centimetres all the way around and from my research
I didn't really see a lot of denim Sherpa jackets with the sleeves done plus
I didn't to add more bulk to the arms, so I did skip arms. We're just gonna be making a Sherpa vest
Obviously you might not have this step
But here is where I tore off all the backings for the faux fur this
Actually did make sewing kind of difficult because it exposed a slightly tacky surface
So if you find your faux fur is like this try to juggle whether you really want to take off the backing I think I?
broke into sweat quite a few times
Wrestling this through my sewing machine
Hopefully that counts for cardio or something, but it made things a little bit trickier first
We can go ahead and sew the back to the two fronts right sides facing one another at the shoulders
And I used a straight stitch
Next up I clipped the collar to the neck hole and sewed it right sides together
But I left about five centimeters at the two ends, and that was to help me mold. It around the jacket collar later on
Finally we can sell the back and the front together along the two sides
Still right sides together with a straight stitch as you can see
Here's where I clipped the Sherpa collar to the denim jacket collar right sides together. Just along that top edge
We're going to put down a straight stitch
After that the entire Sherpa jacket was flipped to the inside and we're going to focus on the armholes first
At the armholes I folded in the extra one and a half to two centimeters
And I hand stitched all the way around
The goal was just to pick up a little bit of denim so that the stitches don't show on the outside
So that's why I did it by hand and not with the sewing machine
As a side note when I did all of this I had forgotten that my jacket was a drop shoulder so
After I put it on I did find I had too much shoulder bulk
I don't know if it's easy to tell here on camera
But it was really apparent in person so I cut back some of the fabric at the shoulder so that the Sherpa
Aligned with my real shoulder and not the jacket shoulder. This is comparing them when I had only fixed one shoulder
Hopefully you can tell the difference with the update
I could only attach the Sherpa along the top
but I kept the lower half armpit stitching so here you can see how I sewed the raw edge out of the way and
Will live with these little gaps that are between
The sides and the top where I was able to attach it moving on to the front opening
I folded and clipped away the excess fabric and I decided to aim to have the faux fur and
Just before we get to the jacket buttons
To secure this part I used a thread that matched the jacket thread so that it blended in and then I sewed the jacket to
The folded Sherpa following an existing stitch as much as possible
So I followed this Jean thread all along the jacket opening in the front to connect from the neck to the bottom you can keep
checking along the way by lifting the fabric that your stitch is catching everything and
Do what you can to have the jacket and the Sherpa lie flat while sewing so that you're not?
bunching excess fabric or or pulling away too much fabric at any point
Once the front opening is done
You can fold in the excess fabric at the bottom and so that with the same technique of blending your stitch with an existing stitch
One tip to help reduce some of the bulk is that at the corners where it's folded you cut off some of the extra fabric
So that it's not folded over twice and going through three to four layers of faux fur at once
The very last step is the color blue I
Cut off the excess fabric again, that would add bulk and I folded in the raw edges towards the collar
Here again I used hand stitching to secure the shirt
but to the collar since I didn't want the stitches to show up on the other side and
as a reminded how truly
Forgiving faux fur can be so don't let faux fur scare you when you stitch it by hand the stitches kind of just
Disappear into the fur and with a few strategically placed stitches you can really just hide everything away. It's so amazing
This is my updated denim Sherpa jacket all done
We you so much for watching this video if you want to see more photos of it
It's all gonna be on my Instagram yet with Wendy as well if you made it this far
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I will go ahead and put links to all my faux fur and all my denim
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