Would you ask Picasso to paint your garage?

Why is it that people think if you have a sewing machine that you patch or mend or fix things. i used to do that and sometimes still do. this is one of those times.

My hubby's buddy brought me 2 jackets. one had a tiger on the back and dragons on the sleeves. he wanted those embroidered items put onto the other jacket. so i said...'sure, why not'. it sat in the studio for a couple weeks and i looked at it once or twice and thought about it a bit.

Today i decided to tackle it. my first thought was to cut it out and fuse it to the other jacket and then just stitch around it. but they were both nylon and i figured they would melt under the iron. so i cut them out, leaving some space to turn them under. i decided to cut the tiger in a circle. it has letters on top of it but we didn't want those. the dragons and the tiger was a bit too wide for the back of the jacket so i put the circle of the tiger kind of over the edges of the dragons. we won't even talk about the tiger jacket being blue and the other jacket being marroon. LOL

I had to stretch out the bottom of the jacket and tape it to the table then try and pin the designs in place and keep the lining from bunching up at the same time. it was a pain...i think it would have been easier to just sew another jacket. when i cut out the tiger, it did not lay flat so i put some batting under it to take up some space.

Once i pinned them down with about a zillion pins i stitched around them and then went around the tiger and one side of the dragons so the batting wouldn't shift. the designs went from one side seam to the other all the way across the back.

LD liked it and had a big smile on his face so it was a success and that is all that matters. oh, and i embroidered his company name, Stampede Recording, on the front of the jacket, too. he says he bought the jacket because it has the "S" on it. LOL
 

LD is the guitar player for their band, Country Crossroads. They are building a recording studio in part of our barn. My hubby has been learning how to record the music onto CD's. I have a feeling there are going to be some hours of music shenanigans out there soon. but they say they are soundproofing the place so i shouldn't hear anything.

We shall see.