How To Draw A Military Vest

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Vests are a keen do-it-yourself project for any beginner! Y'all can requite life to an old T-shirt past cut out a belong shape, for instance, or you could work from a blueprint to cut your own cloth pieces. Play around with using unlike fabrics or prints depending on whether you lot're making a vest for an adult or child. Then, accept fun adding buttons or fringe to fashion your vest.

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Choose a T-shirt and plow it inside out. You can use any size T-shirt, but try to find an extra-big if you'd similar the vest to be flowy and loose. And so, turn your T-shirt inside out and lay information technology apartment on a work surface.^[one]
- If you'd like a more structured vest, you lot tin can utilise an erstwhile-button down shirt instead of a T-shirt. Keep in mind that this belong would as well have a folded neckband.
- You can utilise a T-shirt with a V-cervix or rounded crew neck depending on the look you want for your belong.
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Fold the shirt in one-half vertically and smooth the fabric. Bring 1 side of the T-shirt over to the other side so the sleeves and edges of the shirt line up. Smooth out any wrinkles or bumps in the shirt so the fabric volition be even when you begin cutting.^[2]

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Use a pen to draw the shape of your vest. Take a washable pen or marker and make a line where you desire the neckline to be. For example, if you want to make a deep 5-neck, angle a ruler from the peak of the shirt to the bottom point of the neckline. And then, draw a line with the marker. You'll too need to draw a rounded armhole that's as large as yous like.^[3]
- If you don't want the vest to exist narrow across the shoulders, don't cut a large armhole. Instead, but cut the sleeves off, but leave the seams in identify.
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Cutting out the sleeves. Use a sharp pair of pair of scissors to carefully cut out the armhole. Recall to cut through the folded shirt so you cut the other sleeve at the same fourth dimension.^[4]
- If you're concerned that the fabric will move around on you while you're cut through the sleeves, pivot them in place with safe or sewing pins.
Tip: Once you lot discard the sleeves, you can pull the T-shirt on over your caput to encounter if you cut plenty of the sleeves or if you lot'd like to make adjustments.
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Use pair of scissors to cut the neckline before you unfold the shirt. Carefully cut along the line you drew for the cervix and ensure that the scissors cut through both layers of the folded T-shirt. Discard the scraps and and then turn the shirt right side out as you unfold it.^[5]

Tip: If you'd like to exit the back neckband of the shirt in place, take intendance to but cut the front end of the shirt when you lot're making the neckline.
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Cut a straight line downward the heart of the shirt. Remember that you're only cut through the top (front) layer of the shirt. If yous're concerned that you won't be able to cutting a perfectly straight line, apply a ruler and marking a line down the eye before you cut.^{[half dozen]}
- Your T-shirt should at present look like a loose belong.
Variation: If you'd rather brand a pullover vest, just don't cut the line down the forepart of the shirt. Then, y'all tin pull the shirt right over your caput.
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Add buttons to one side of the vest if yous want to be able to secure information technology. Stitch as many buttons equally you like to one side of the vest's front border. Then, line upward the other side of the belong then yous tin can cut a small slit for each push to slide into.^[7]
- For a more professional person look, you lot tin use a sewing machine to hem the edges that y'all cut.
- To decorate your vest, even more, add fabric pigment embellishments or atomic number 26-on patches to give the vest a little personality.
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Cut the fabric to as broad and long as you'd like the belong to be. Unfold nearly ane ⁱⁱⁱ⁄₄ yards (1.6 1000) of fabric on a flat work surface. And so, apply precipitous pair of scissors to cut the fabric then it's twice as long as y'all desire the vest to finish up. You lot'll too demand to cut the fabric then it'south every bit broad as yous desire the belong to be.^[eight]
- Since you're folding this fabric before you lot cut it, yous'll need to go on it twice as long as you want the vest once you fold it.
Tip: Utilise whatsoever type of material you like, such as cotton wool, wool, fleece, or acrylic.
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Fold the fabric in half lengthwise and horizontally. Since the cloth should already be as broad as yous like and twice as long as it needs to exist, you can just fold the fabric in one-half lengthwise. So, fold it horizontally.^[9]
- Your fabric should now look similar a rectangle.
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Depict a curved line in the upper corner of the folded fabric. Utilise a ruler and make a mark iii inches (7.6 cm) beyond from the upper corner of the folded fabric. And so, measure and mark two inches (5.ane cm) down from the upper corner of the folded material and draw a curved line to connect the 2 marks.^[10]
- You can mark on the material with chalk or washable marker.
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Cut out the curved line to make the neckline. Try to cut as polish a line every bit possible and so the neckline of your belong looks even. Yous can discard the scrap of textile you lot cut out.^[11]
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Unfold the fabric and cut the eye of the belong so it opens. Depending on the blazon of fabric you used, you might still be able to encounter a fold like from when you folded the fabric in one-half. Y'all can use this as a guide or simply cut a straight line from the bottom centre of the front end upwards to the neckline that you cut.^[12]
- Your fabric should now await like a belong and you tin can try it on.
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Trim the edges of the belong if desired. Decide if you lot'd like to cutting more of the front fabric at an bending near the neckline, for instance. Yous can also style your vest by cutting the lesser edges into curves or points.^[13]

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Open your pattern and cull a belong size. Buy a vest pattern from a craft store, thrift store, or thou auction. Y'all tin also find patterns at some libraries or search for printable patterns online. Since most patterns offer different sizes, read the pattern and pick the size that closely matches your measurements.
- For example, you might find a stylish waistcoat vest for men or a pattern for a simple babe belong.
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Cut out the pattern pieces. To make it easier to cut out the pattern size yous need, have a highlighter or colored marker and describe along the lines for your blueprint size. Then, utilise scissors to cut out each blueprint piece.
- You'll probably need to cut out 1 to iii pieces for a basic vest.
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Fold your cloth and place the back blueprint piece on the fold. Follow your blueprint instructions and fold about ane yard (0.91 m) of fabric lengthwise. It should be broad enough to fit the dorsum pattern slice.^[xiv]
- If you're making a simple vest, you might have 1 design piece that you cut for the front and back of the belong.
- You may want to pin the fabric in place to keep it from moving effectually every bit you work.
Tip: Y'all tin can use any blazon of fabric you like for your vest. Proceed in heed that stretchy fabrics, such as knits, will create a flowy vest. If yous're making a child's vest, consider using fleece since information technology's soft and won't fray.
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Cut out all of your fabric pieces. If yous placed a design on the fold, cut effectually the pattern, just don't cut the folded side. When you remove the design and unfold the fabric, you'll see a large back piece for the vest. And then, cut out the two front pattern pieces.^[15]
- For the forepart pieces, you won't cut on the fold since you'll need 2 smaller fabric pieces.
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Lay the forepart pieces on top of the back piece. Place the back piece of material so the patterned side is facing up. Then, arrange the ii forepart fabric pieces on the back piece so the pattern faces down.^[16]
- If you're using felt, information technology doesn't matter which side you lay up or down since the fabric is the aforementioned on both sides.
Tip: To make it easier to handle the fabric pieces every bit y'all bring them to your sewing machine, consider pinning them in place with sewing pins.
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Sew the shoulders and sides of the belong leaving infinite for armholes. Utilise a sewing auto to stitch a straight line across the top of the vest. This will brand the shoulders. So, stitch both sides of the vest. Retrieve to leave about a ^ane⁄₂ inch (i.3 cm) seam assart.^[17]
- To secure your stitches, it's a good idea to make a few forwards and back stitches when y'all beginning sewing.
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Turn the vest right side out and embellish it if yous like. Try on the belong to ensure that information technology fits properly and decide if you'd similar to add buttons. You could fifty-fifty add fringe or bounden forth the edges.^[18]
- To requite your belong a professional await, consider hemming the raw edges of the textile. Go along in heed that you don't need to do this if yous used fleece.
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T-shirt
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Buttons, optional
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To make a no-sew T-shirt vest, choose a shirt, turn it within out, and lay it flat on a work surface. Fold the shirt in half vertically and apply a washable pen or marking to describe a line where you desire the neckline to be. And so, cutting off the sleeves, taking care to cutting through the folded shirt so that both sleeves are removed. After that, cut the neckline along the line yous drew and unfold the shirt. Cut a straight line down the center of the shirt, this fourth dimension cutting through simply the acme layer. At this point, your vest is gear up to clothing, but you tin can add embellishments, like buttons or patches, if you'd like! For tips on sewing a simple belong, read on!

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