One reason this was an awesome video is because you shared your entire process of trying to “figure it out”, while you were filming & everyone got to witness & hear your excellent “problem solving strategies”!! Which was exciting to experience - that alone was a major breakthrough for many people to see & hear!! I loved the entire video!! Your jacket looks amazing!!! You’re sure to get stopped & asked about it many times👍👍👏👏🤗!!!
Nice job. As an embroidered, I would use a light weight wash away stabilizer topper to hold down the threads for sewing. It will help prevent the threads from moving and clogging your machine. Then when you are finished, you wash away the stabilizer!
Catherine, your creative process is soo amazing. You showed how, if you really love an idea, and stay with the process, you also, can see through, to the end of the project, if you really think it through, and go step by step, you will have an end result that you love. Thank you Catherine.❤ 👏👏👏
I totally love this what a great job figuring it out. I was cheering you along all the way. I will be experimenting with a few new ideas this has inspired me to try out. First, I must finish a project that I have on the go right now. To my surprise I must say I love hand sewing and ironing at 63 years old I am changing and learning new things. Thank you, Cathrine, Judy and Nadya.
Thank you for the time spent breaking down the process, troubleshooting along the way, your gentle spirit, and patience. You are a great teacher and you’ve given me confidence that I can tackle projects like this one.
Well done, Catherine! I always enjoy your videos. Or both old-school seamstresses. What an inspiration! Now you have me looking at jackets and sweaters and a new way! Thank you for all you do.♥️♥️♥️
WOW! Catherine, it turned out Fantastic!! It was so interesting watching you figure out how to make the tendrils. Enjoy wearing this one of a kind piece Art!
Very very impressed....i often redo the clothes I buy to add more interest and fit. Glad to see this video . Thank you for taking time. I have a fluffy jacket with snaps on the sleeve that are too big but it has many angle seams. Haven't fixed it yet - not sure what to do! Wish we could share with pics with community of sewers to get suggestions. Take care and Thanks for showing this. Great!
Wow wow! You sure made an original jacket for yourself. The colours look great together and it is so cute with jeans. Its not something I will ever do but, I loved watching your process and the way your brain works at figuring out problems.
I bought this Ranvoo lint remover for my mom 2 months ago through your channel and I can say there is nothing better! She really likes how she can easily give the sweaters and curtains in our home a new look! You did a good job,thank you🤩😄
I absolutely love it. I would wear the heck out of that if I had it. But definitely no way would I have the patience to make it. Maybe one day when the kids are older I'll have that kind of time for a project. I don't hand sew anything. If it requires hand sewing I just don't
Catherine, you come up with the CUTEST ideas! This one is soooo cute! Have you ever seen thread painting demonstrations? That's what your peaks of spindles look like to me. I think it's called couching thread. Thanks for this video! Much fun!
I love how your jacket turned out!!… I have to admit though that the whole time I was watching you sewing the squiggly bits I was thinking, “What about Needle Felting?”
Wow! Fantastic! It takes patience of which you showed so much. Thank you for showing us how to do that in a much simpler way than she did. Especially like the squiggly bits coming out of the pocket.
I also don’t use a thimble much, but I was working this week on some quilting and managed to push the eye end of the needle into my finger, and it didn’t really want to come out. Ouch! And it’s not like I don’t have ten thimbles from various dead relatives to choose from 😂. I picked one out for the remainder of the project. Lesson learned! I would have also harvested the yarn from the discarded parts of the cardigan and used a crewel needle to make chain stitches for the tendrils, but your method worked, so it all ended up great!
You and Nadya have inspired me. Your calm and generous demeanor really helped me see how to get this done. Thank you so much. This is on my list of wannamakes for this fall! I'll let you know how it goes.
Great video! 😄I think all ladies would love nice clothes haha, I was always sad that my clothes pilled after a year of wear, ☹until I saw the lint remover in your video. I bought it for Christmas about a month ago. I really like this. 😍It makes a lot of my pilling clothes look like new again. This will be my most satisfying home appliance❤
Wow I am amazed! As always, you figured it out! The squiggly bits remind me of lupins growing in a field. I love the bits growing in the pocket too. I am glad that you replaced the elbow patches, though I might have just left them off. You have a lot more patience than I do. Great video!!
Wow, it turned out great! I was so anxious for you to post this video after you teased us about it last week. You did not disappoint. Thank you for sharing it. Awesome! ❤
Although it's not my style I just love how you analyzed the project and how you made it your thing. I love that you enjoyed the process and how much you love the outcome. It looks really punk and interesting on you. Wear it with pride!
Nice addition to your list of tutorials! I like it! And you did a fine job explaining! I've got three blazers to experiment on! After I finish stereo covers and several welders caps! Oh I just thought of something! You can make the caps for the Automotive department at school! Peace ✌️ Bonnie Ohio
Catherine thank you for this unique video. I enjoyed watching you craft! And I got such neat ideas from it, too! Thanks for your many videos, I enjoy learning from you. ❤
This is awesome totally awesome and being Canadian you find a lot of boiled wool sweaters at the thrift store boiled wall gives kind of the same comfort as your cardigan jacket and you know probably some of that would be available maybe use wool on the boil wool or jacket on the boiled interesting
I absolutely love this! I haven't seen the inspiration video you mention, but you've made such a cool looking jacket. I think I'll be putting that idea in my list of cool things to make! Thank you...
You r brilliant! Seeing something we like and find interesting is easy. Figuring out the steps to achieve it is fantastic. I love it. That blue cardigan looked beautiful before u made it amazing. TY for bringing us through ur efforts and thoughts.
Wow! That is amazing! I am a knitter and am still scratching my head! I think you nailed it though! I do love hand stitching (and ripping), so I understand the relaxed feeling it offers. Another great project! Thank you! 😊
I’m always amazed at your creativity and execution of your projects! I would love to be able to create like you. Thank you for your videos. I have learned many tips and work arounds from you.
I'm wondering if felting or needle punching strands of yarn (or whatever is used) to create the look that your after would have worked. the creativity of your jacket it one awesome idea.
I think you did a great job and it looks wonderful. I related to getting excited to do something before I thought it through. I salute your fearless spirit.
I like my blazers longer. I have one that I never wear, because I don't like the cut. I will try this, but as long as I'm adding the sweater I can lengthen the whole look! Fabulous idea.
Wow, Catherine! That is an amazing accomplishment! You saw it; you figured it out, and you did it! No small feat! You should be really proud of this garment. So happy you love it! It's really nice. Thanks for sharing this with us.😊
Great idea! LOVE your interpretation!!! I MIGHT try this myself. . . it's such a timeless, artsy look!!! As a knitter, I MAY try to knit the parts myself. AND I think I have a jacket!!! Love your stuff!!! Pacing is great, video is great, showing your process and thinking is great!!
Excellent video -- loved the process!! I think I recall at the beginning you mentioned the friend knitted her own sweater? This gives her control of the yarn and where she wants to have the long tendrils without having to clip into the knit. This however, shows how clever you are and created something even more original -- KUDOS!!
From the look of the original I'm guessing that the knit cardigan portion was crocheted across the ragged "cut" to keep it from falling to bits, and it would be done in sections with long chain stitches coming off the points trailing off into yarn tails, and the chain stitches and yarn tails (along with the crocheted edge) would be sewn to the blazer to keep them in place. I think machine darning the knit on like you did gives it an interesting look. I think with a few more attempts you could perfect things and get something that looks just as good as the inspiration.
I need to watch this again. What you did was sooooo amazing! I can't believe how much careful care you put into this project!!! Your problem-solving was epic! I really like that blue with the jacket, too. Congratulations on this super-cool project!!!!
I think for the tendrils, I would use some of the yarn from the part you cut off. Take that yarn with a big needle then hand sew some longer tendrils. It is a very cool look.
Wow! Thanks so much for all of the super sweet comments on this video. I must say, I have the NICEST subscribers! 🥰😍😘
Doesn't matter if anyone else wouldn't like it. If you like it, enjoy it. Your life, your bliss.
One reason this was an awesome video is because you shared your entire process of trying to “figure it out”, while you were filming & everyone got to witness & hear your excellent “problem solving strategies”!! Which was exciting to experience - that alone was a major breakthrough for many people to see & hear!! I loved the entire video!! Your jacket looks amazing!!! You’re sure to get stopped & asked about it many times👍👍👏👏🤗!!!
It looks good on you Catherine. Such dedication with all your squiggly bits! Such patience too. A jacket fit for a sewing Queen. Well done! 🥰
Thanks, QA! I love wearing it!
Love your projects. Perhaps using a free motion quilting foot for adding the tendrils on the sleeves.
Or a walking foot?
Nice job. As an embroidered, I would use a light weight wash away stabilizer topper to hold down the threads for sewing. It will help prevent the threads from moving and clogging your machine. Then when you are finished, you wash away the stabilizer!
You are so creative and it's a joy watching you work things out. Love it.
Awww, thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy watching my videos! I always appreciate your comments. 🥰
The jacket looks great Catherine! You are amazing at trouble shooting. Your students are lucky to have access to your instruction!!!
Catherine, your creative process is soo amazing. You showed how, if you really love an idea, and stay with the process, you also, can see through, to the end of the project, if you really think it through, and go step by step, you will have an end result that you love. Thank you Catherine.❤ 👏👏👏
Well.....That is a work of ART, Catherine. You'll receive many complimentary accolades when out and about. Sure gives me ideas 💃💃 Thank you!
I totally love this what a great job figuring it out. I was cheering you along all the way. I will be experimenting with a few new ideas this has inspired me to try out. First, I must finish a project that I have on the go right now. To my surprise I must say I love hand sewing and ironing at 63 years old I am changing and learning new things. Thank you, Cathrine, Judy and Nadya.
Thank you for the time spent breaking down the process, troubleshooting along the way, your gentle spirit, and patience. You are a great teacher and you’ve given me confidence that I can tackle projects like this one.
Well done, Catherine! I always enjoy your videos. Or both old-school seamstresses. What an inspiration! Now you have me looking at jackets and sweaters and a new way! Thank you for all you do.♥️♥️♥️
WOW! Catherine, it turned out Fantastic!! It was so interesting watching you figure out how to make the tendrils. Enjoy wearing this one of a kind piece Art!
Thanks so much, Heidi! It was fun to make and I love wearing it!
@catherinesews Love the jacket paired with your sashiko jeans!!
I thought I was gonna hate that mash-up, but turned out that I absolutely love it! May be my favorite up-cycle you’ve done yet!
Very very impressed....i often redo the clothes I buy to add more interest and fit. Glad to see this video . Thank you for taking time. I have a fluffy jacket with snaps on the sleeve that are too big but it has many angle seams. Haven't fixed it yet - not sure what to do! Wish we could share with pics with community of sewers to get suggestions. Take care and Thanks for showing this. Great!
When you started this project I thought you had lost your senses but boy what a nice "swazer". Very cool
Haha, swazer, I love it!
Wow wow! You sure made an original jacket for yourself. The colours look great together and it is so cute with jeans. Its not something I will ever do but, I loved watching your process and the way your brain works at figuring out problems.
It looks gorgeous, looks like its been paint dipped - I want one now lols
I bought this Ranvoo lint remover for my mom 2 months ago through your channel and I can say there is nothing better! She really likes how she can easily give the sweaters and curtains in our home a new look! You did a good job,thank you🤩😄
I absolutely love it. I would wear the heck out of that if I had it. But definitely no way would I have the patience to make it. Maybe one day when the kids are older I'll have that kind of time for a project. I don't hand sew anything. If it requires hand sewing I just don't
Catherine, you come up with the CUTEST ideas! This one is soooo cute! Have you ever seen thread painting demonstrations? That's what your peaks of spindles look like to me. I think it's called couching thread. Thanks for this video! Much fun!
I love how your jacket turned out!!… I have to admit though that the whole time I was watching you sewing the squiggly bits I was thinking, “What about Needle Felting?”
Watching you figure out how to make the tendrils work was so interesting! It's an amazing look. Love it!
Love the end result! The leather elbow patches are a great addition to the finished piece.
Wow! Fantastic! It takes patience of which you showed so much. Thank you for showing us how to do that in a much simpler way than she did. Especially like the squiggly bits coming out of the pocket.
So great an idea! Love the upcoming idea. More of these please
It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. It looks good on you. It is original.
I also don’t use a thimble much, but I was working this week on some quilting and managed to push the eye end of the needle into my finger, and it didn’t really want to come out. Ouch! And it’s not like I don’t have ten thimbles from various dead relatives to choose from 😂. I picked one out for the remainder of the project. Lesson learned! I would have also harvested the yarn from the discarded parts of the cardigan and used a crewel needle to make chain stitches for the tendrils, but your method worked, so it all ended up great!
I had pinned that as well…excited to see you were doing it so I can learn from you! Looks great on you, thanks for sharing ❤
You and Nadya have inspired me. Your calm and generous demeanor really helped me see how to get this done. Thank you so much. This is on my list of wannamakes for this fall! I'll let you know how it goes.
Absolutely love this! Also, thanks very much for the tip of using a firm plastic inside the sleeves to facilitate hand stitching!
You could use a pop/soda bottle 😊
That looks like it was very challenging. Great job on it!
I love it, love it, love it! ❤ So creative. I admire your adventurous spirit combined with skill in creating one-of-a-kind products.
Thank you so much!
Wow, it looks great! I wish I had a basic black jacket, I would use my lavender sweater.
Nadya’s cardigan was a loose stitch. Yours turned out great.
Great video! 😄I think all ladies would love nice clothes haha, I was always sad that my clothes pilled after a year of wear, ☹until I saw the lint remover in your video. I bought it for Christmas about a month ago. I really like this. 😍It makes a lot of my pilling clothes look like new again. This will be my most satisfying home appliance❤
WOW! I’m speechless😶. You are so creative and have such great ability to translate ideas into something concrete. Very impressive.
Wow, thank you!
That was interesting. You did a great job!
Wow I am amazed! As always, you figured it out! The squiggly bits remind me of lupins growing in a field. I love the bits growing in the pocket too. I am glad that you replaced the elbow patches, though I might have just left them off. You have a lot more patience than I do. Great video!!
Wow, it turned out great! I was so anxious for you to post this video after you teased us about it last week. You did not disappoint. Thank you for sharing it. Awesome! ❤
Such a lot of work, but so worth it, it looks great, amazing work.
Wooooooot!
Thanks, buddy! This was a fun one to make!
Great job Catherine 👏👏👏👍😃
Catherine YOU ARE A ROCK STAR!!! I love your new creation. It looks amazing. I am so happy for you ❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦
Although it's not my style I just love how you analyzed the project and how you made it your thing. I love that you enjoyed the process and how much you love the outcome. It looks really punk and interesting on you. Wear it with pride!
What a fun project! It reminds me of winter icesicles!
Great piece, well done. 👏👏
Nice addition to your list of tutorials!
I like it! And you did a fine job explaining!
I've got three blazers
to experiment on!
After I finish stereo covers and several welders caps!
Oh I just thought of something!
You can make the caps for the Automotive department at school!
Peace ✌️
Bonnie Ohio
Wow ❤ I definitely want to give this a try 😊 thank you so much for such a great video
Love watching you from start to finish...so inspiring ❤❤❤
Good Job, you are so brave. Thanks for sharing your journey. 🙂
Love love love this
Catherine thank you for this unique video. I enjoyed watching you craft! And I got such neat ideas from it, too! Thanks for your many videos, I enjoy learning from you. ❤
When you started I thought I wouldn’t like the finished result but it’s lovely!
You did such a great job. It looks very cool.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!
This is awesome totally awesome and being Canadian you find a lot of boiled wool sweaters at the thrift store boiled wall gives kind of the same comfort as your cardigan jacket and you know probably some of that would be available maybe use wool on the boil wool or jacket on the boiled interesting
I absolutely love this! I haven't seen the inspiration video you mention, but you've made such a cool looking jacket. I think I'll be putting that idea in my list of cool things to make! Thank you...
The pocket detail really makes this look professional. Lovely project.
You r brilliant! Seeing something we like and find interesting is easy. Figuring out the steps to achieve it is fantastic. I love it. That blue cardigan looked beautiful before u made it amazing. TY for bringing us through ur efforts and thoughts.
Wow! That is amazing! I am a knitter and am still scratching my head! I think you nailed it though! I do love hand stitching (and ripping), so I understand the relaxed feeling it offers. Another great project! Thank you! 😊
You have the patience of a saint. Very nicely done. ❤
How fabulous! Wear this with pride and a smile.😊
Wow! That's amazing 👏
Wow! Now we all want a jacket like this! Definitely worth the hand sewing. You did an amazing job of recreating this.
LOVE the jacket!
That looks like a fun project. I've seen mash ups like that on denim but the jacket was a cool twist.
beautiful Catherine
It looks great on you. So much work but so original. Great tutorial
This is so cute. I hadn't seen the original jacket until your video. I love the way you made this.
I’m always amazed at your creativity and execution of your projects! I would love to be able to create like you. Thank you for your videos. I have learned many tips and work arounds from you.
Love this!
Very cool. Kind of downtown-meets-casual look! Well done!
Creative. The blue yarn looks good with the gray jacket. I think your jacket looks very good on you.
I'm wondering if felting or needle punching strands of yarn (or whatever is used) to create the look that your after would have worked. the creativity of your jacket it one awesome idea.
I'm on the fence about that jacket...not your rendition of it but the whole idea of it. Your problem solving is inspiring to watch!
Oh, that was fantastic Catherine! Very creative. Well done. Mx
I think you did a great job and it looks wonderful. I related to getting excited to do something before I thought it through. I salute your fearless spirit.
I like my blazers longer. I have one that I never wear, because I don't like the cut. I will try this, but as long as I'm adding the sweater I can lengthen the whole look! Fabulous idea.
I love watching you! Thank you for the great idea!
You have the patience of a saint 😇 all your hard work paid off …. such a fabulous jacket, love it 😊
Wow, Catherine! That is an amazing accomplishment! You saw it; you figured it out, and you did it! No small feat! You should be really proud of this garment. So happy you love it! It's really nice. Thanks for sharing this with us.😊
This is sooo cool! That was a lot of work, but for sure worth it.
Great idea! LOVE your interpretation!!! I MIGHT try this myself. . . it's such a timeless, artsy look!!! As a knitter, I MAY try to knit the parts myself. AND I think I have a jacket!!! Love your stuff!!! Pacing is great, video is great, showing your process and thinking is great!!
Well done. That took a bunch of thinking & sewing!!
Lotsa fun! Looks great!
This is phenomenal ❤😂🎉
Thanks, Sylvia! Your lovely comments always give me a nice boost. 😍
Excellent video -- loved the process!! I think I recall at the beginning you mentioned the friend knitted her own sweater? This gives her control of the yarn and where she wants to have the long tendrils without having to clip into the knit. This however, shows how clever you are and created something even more original -- KUDOS!!
The jacket is amazing!
Agree with so many of the comments - not something I will make but I loved watching this one!
It’s brilliant kudos to you and the designer
From the look of the original I'm guessing that the knit cardigan portion was crocheted across the ragged "cut" to keep it from falling to bits, and it would be done in sections with long chain stitches coming off the points trailing off into yarn tails, and the chain stitches and yarn tails (along with the crocheted edge) would be sewn to the blazer to keep them in place.
I think machine darning the knit on like you did gives it an interesting look. I think with a few more attempts you could perfect things and get something that looks just as good as the inspiration.
I need to watch this again. What you did was sooooo amazing! I can't believe how much careful care you put into this project!!! Your problem-solving was epic! I really like that blue with the jacket, too. Congratulations on this super-cool project!!!!
Love how you always figure it out!
What a unique idea!! I think my little nieces would love a swing coat with these details. Thank you for sharing & posting!
Oh my word! I would love to make one of those!! Thanks for figuring out for us and I think yours is just perfect!
So cool and creative!!! I’d love more ideas like this!
Awesome mash-up!
I think for the tendrils, I would use some of the yarn from the part you cut off. Take that yarn with a big needle then hand sew some longer tendrils. It is a very cool look.
You did a great job. I just love it. The colors are really nice. Thanks for sharing 😊
Wow! I love it! I feel the need for a jacket like this in my life. You did a great job again Catherine. Xxx