Cute as a Button Baby Jacket

Here I am a sewing pattern seller and have been for many years. The last time I sewed clothes from a pattern was my maternity clothes in the late 1980s. 

The pattern is a 2009 Jackie Clark Designs Cute As A Button Baby Jacket. I am not an accomplished seamstress so a lined hooded jacket was a stretch for me. After many viewings of different YouTube tutorials, I got on the right track.

In the image below, I demonstrate that the sleeves were too narrow. Only 2 of my fingers would fit so I cut 1-1/2 inches from the sleeve length. 

Attaching the hood and the hems to the sleeves and jacket were hand sewn.  

Back of the baby jacket. The fabric is a remnant from the baby quilt backing.  

Seems sewing blog posts are much, much more popular than quilting posts. Since a baby girl will be entering my life, I will be sewing more little girl clothes. 

These two fabrics came through the batch from the community sale at the senior trailer park. 

I made many mistakes on the first go through on this pattern. The biggest mistake was sewing the hood to the jacket without hiding the seams. 

Here are the two jackets, mistakes I made on the first one, I corrected on the second one.

On the subject of sewing patterns - The women's and men's pajama patterns are from 1962. Both are keepers, even though I rarely keep cut patterns. 

Ending the post with Camo Build A Bear modeling the jacket prototype, and newly-rescued $1 thrift shop bear modeling Baby Girl Malcolm baby jacket.