My Patch Jacket
This is my latest project. I am re-doing my patch jacket. My other one was so only that is was starting to fall apart. I have been looking for a new one, but windbreakers are hard to come by there days. When we were at the council office last Saturday I noticed this one. It was 50% off because it had the council name on it (which is changing October 1st).
When I got home I started taking my patches off. I found out that some of them had been on my 1st patch jacket. Man that’s old. I had that one in elementary school. I sure hope I never have to do this again. I hate sewing. I know some of you are saying, Oh it’s so relaxing. I can just sit there for hours, and hours and clear my head. Well, GOOD FOR YOU! I hate every bit of it. I sit there in the garage sweating, and shoving the jacket in that little space. Grrrr. But it must be done.
As I started to put the patches on my new jacket (in order and categories) I would smile at some of them and remember when I got them. I thought that I had all of them rounded up and then I went into the top drawer of my dresser (shhh, it’s my junk drawer) and found more. Yeah. Then last night I looked out in the garage and found even more. So what you see in the picture is just the tip of the ice-berg. I have atleast 20 or 30 more.
There is one shining moment to this entire project. My friend Stacey told me that she used clear thread to sew her daughter’s patches and badges. What’s this clear thread why has no one ever told me about this. You know what I may have to make her my best friend, because clear thread is the best thing since sliced bread.
If you are not a girl scout you are probably looking at my jacket and thinking why would anyone want to wear that. Well the patch jacket is a dying thing. It comes from the old GS days (you know when I was young) and the more patches you have on your jacket the cooler you were. When I went to a meeting a few weeks ago someone started talking about patches and one of the teachers said that someone had a cool patch jacket here. I said that was mine. That’s right my jacket is cool. In fact, it is about to get cooler. I will take another picture once I am done.
When I got home I started taking my patches off. I found out that some of them had been on my 1st patch jacket. Man that’s old. I had that one in elementary school. I sure hope I never have to do this again. I hate sewing. I know some of you are saying, Oh it’s so relaxing. I can just sit there for hours, and hours and clear my head. Well, GOOD FOR YOU! I hate every bit of it. I sit there in the garage sweating, and shoving the jacket in that little space. Grrrr. But it must be done.
As I started to put the patches on my new jacket (in order and categories) I would smile at some of them and remember when I got them. I thought that I had all of them rounded up and then I went into the top drawer of my dresser (shhh, it’s my junk drawer) and found more. Yeah. Then last night I looked out in the garage and found even more. So what you see in the picture is just the tip of the ice-berg. I have atleast 20 or 30 more.
There is one shining moment to this entire project. My friend Stacey told me that she used clear thread to sew her daughter’s patches and badges. What’s this clear thread why has no one ever told me about this. You know what I may have to make her my best friend, because clear thread is the best thing since sliced bread.
If you are not a girl scout you are probably looking at my jacket and thinking why would anyone want to wear that. Well the patch jacket is a dying thing. It comes from the old GS days (you know when I was young) and the more patches you have on your jacket the cooler you were. When I went to a meeting a few weeks ago someone started talking about patches and one of the teachers said that someone had a cool patch jacket here. I said that was mine. That’s right my jacket is cool. In fact, it is about to get cooler. I will take another picture once I am done.
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