Part 2: Refashion Sweatshirt to Bomber Jacket

After sewing my bomber jacket in Part 1,
I wanted to add some of the built in designs the Brother SE1900 Sewing and Embroidery Machine
offers on the back and front to jazz it up a bit. There are plenty of designs to choose from and for this one I went with the large dragon. It’s cool and something my boys could even wear if they wanted too. Get the details below on how to embroidery a bomber jacket!

Supplies:

• SE1900 Sewing and Embroidery Machine.
  (Also can be done with the Brother PE800
  )
• Cut away stabilizer
• 5 x 7” hoop
• Hoop Template
• Embroidery Thread
• Generals sewing and marking tools

1. Find the center back of the jacket by folding in half. Press with an iron to create a line down the center. This is a good way to keep your design even when doing machine embroidery. If you’re concerned about a pucker happening, use a fabric marking tool.

2. Use your hoop template to determine where you’d like the embroidery to be placed and mark with a fabric marking tool.

3. Stabilize the back with a cut away stabilizer. Make sure the stabilizer is large enough to be hooped with the jacket. I usually cut the stabilizer to have a 2” perimeter around the hoop.

4. Hoop the jacket making sure the hoop center marks line up with the center back line.

5. Set up your machine to embroider. From here, the Brother SE1900 Sewing & Embroidery Machine
   makes it easy to enlarge and move the design. I use the center line and align the center of the built-in design along it.

6. You can repeat this for the front as well or even add lettering with the many different built in fonts offered.