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Designing, Sewing, & Making Vests

How to make a Vest

Teresa showing her reversible vest she made.

 
About Vests - Sewing and Making vest are quite easy.  They can be long or short and can be made as an accessory to compliment one's outfit, or made to be useful, like a men's outdoor work vest made of flannel with the inside being lined of lambs wool for warmth.
Best Fabric to use - Just about any fabric can be used to make vests. Some suggestions are: light weight cotton, denim, corduroy, light weight wool, wool blends, silk, rayon, and velvet. Wool blends, rayon, and velvet work best if the vest pattern requires a lining.
Easy type Pattern - An easy vest pattern would be like the one shown above.  It only has 2 pattern pieces, a back which is placed on the fold, and a front pattern piece that you cut two of.
Difficult type Pattern - A more difficult vest pattern might be one that requires pockets and lining.
Pattern Pieces -     Vests can have any where from 2 to about 8 pattern pieces. Two pattern pieces being the easiest vest to make.
Cost & Fabric Usage -  Short vests to the waistline require little fabric (probably about 1 yard) but usually require lining too which will be yet another yard of the same fabric or contrasting fabric depending on the "look" you are trying to get.
Comments - A vest makes a nice accessory to dresses or tops and is fashionable at times. It is a great garment piece to begin sewing for success.

It is often fashionable to wear a vest whether a long sweater vest down to the knees or a short leather vest to the waistline. Vests can be hung open or closed with some type of closure like buttons, or a zipper.  Vests are easy to make and you can find simple sewing patterns with easy vests to make.

  

In this photo my son, John, in the middle, and daughter, Jamie, on the right, were in their high school play, "Beauty and the Beast." Gaston is to the left of John, Lumiere, to the right of John, and Carolyn, a friend, is to the left of Gaston.  In a couple of scenes the actors had to dress as peasant folk. With only minutes to spare, (one of the times the kids tell me just before dress rehearsal that I needed to make some costumes) I whipped up John's vest in a matter of 3 minutes.  I didn't line it, nor did I add buttons. I just cut it out, sewed the side seams, sewed the shoulder seams, and zigzagged around the edges so it wouldn't fray to bad.  Jamie made her peasant blouse she is wearing, and I whipped up her apron.  It is okay to for me to make John's vest like that for a theatre stage presentation that he will only wear on stage, as a poor "peasant" boy for a couple of nights,  however, I would not recommend making a vest like that and adding it to your wardrobe collection.

 

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