A jacket built the way a quilt is built: twelve fat quarters pieced into soft patchwork, layered with batting, quilted, and bound. The cover version uses ditsy florals in blush, pale blue, sage, and lavender, but autumn plaids or bold graphic prints would make an entirely different jacket from the same instructions. A stand collar, long sleeves, and a row of buttons keep the shape relaxed and easy to layer over a tee and jeans. For anyone with a finished quilt that rarely gets used, a second method cuts the jacket straight from a pre-made quilt.

What the Pattern Includes

This listing is for the printed sewing pattern only. Fabric, batting, lining, bias tape, buttons, and thread are not included. Inside are fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and full-size templates for sizes XS through XXL, covering the patchwork, quilting, and garment assembly, with options for internal or external pockets. A second set of instructions makes the jacket from a pre-made quilt, skipping the piecing and quilting stages.

What You'll Need

The body is pieced from fat quarters:

• Main jacket fabric: 12 fat quarters (18" x 21")
• Pockets (optional): extra of two of the main fabrics
• Lining: 2m (2-1/4 yards) quilters cotton for XS to M; 2.5m (2-3/4 yards) for L to XXL
• Batting: approximately 1.6m (1-3/4 yard) square, in the loft of your choice
• Binding: 4-1/4m (4-3/4 yards) of pre-made 20mm (3/4") bias tape, or enough fabric to make your own
• About seven 20mm (3/4") two-hole buttons
• Quality cotton thread

Batting choice sets the warmth: thin bamboo for mid-season drape, wool for cold days. Full cutting details are inside the pattern.

Sizing

The pattern includes sizes XS through XXL in one envelope. For a larger range, a separate plus-size version covering XL through 6XL is available.

Perfect For

• Sewists ready to bring patchwork and garment construction together in one project
• Fat quarter collectors who want a project that uses a full bundle of twelve
• Anyone who wants a wearable, one-of-a-kind layer that changes with the fabric chosen
• Quilters with a finished quilt they would rather wear than store

Why You'll Love This Pattern

The appeal is the one that makes patchwork quilts satisfying, scaled down to something you can wear. Each fat quarter becomes part of the whole, so the fabric pull does most of the design work before the first seam, and two sewists working from the same instructions can finish jackets that look nothing alike.

It is recommended for intermediate sewists. The patchwork piecing is straightforward, but turning a quilted panel into a garment with a collar, sleeves, pockets, and bias-bound edges is where the experience comes in. Nothing beyond a sewing machine and the usual tools is required.

The pre-made quilt option is worth knowing about too. A quilt that has spent years folded away can become a jacket in a fraction of the time, since the piecing and quilting are already done.

Product Details

• Brand: Melly & Me
• Item #: MM188
• Designer: Melanie McNeice
• Category: Clothing Sewing Pattern
• Skill Level: Intermediate (Melly & Me's rating; straightforward patchwork piecing, with garment construction and bias binding that reward some sewing experience)
• Technique: Patchwork piecing, quilting, garment construction, bias binding
• Sizes: XS to XXL
• Pockets: Optional internal or external
• Format: Printed paper pattern with full-size templates