When we first decided to participate in a Civil War reenactment I was nervous about making costumes (not the crafty type of Mom!). However with a little inspiration from some friends (thanks Sue and Anne) my Mom and I put together a jacket today for T. First of all, the jacket was 1.50 at our local thrift store, and the pants were 1.00. The jacket was actually a women’s jacket in the smallest size (6) I could find. Here is the before picture:
For the jacket: I cut down the sleeves and traced a pattern
on a piece of paper folded in half. Then I placed the pattern on yellow felt and cut out two separate applications, ironed on some Heat N’ Bond, and applied these to the sleeves.
For the collar I also used yellow felt, along with hot gluing some
"sequin" stars on each side. I will be adding some gold braiding and
gold buttons, but you’ll get a good idea of what we’ll have from this
picture:
Stay tuned for the finished product!
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