Are you working on your jacket for the National Jacket Challenge? There's still time! And - IMPORTANT - you'll be judged on your ideas. NOT your sewing!

That's right. NOT your sewing.
So if that's been holidng you back, get busy - you've still got most of this month!
Here's what the judges really care about - your ideas and your fashion sense:
- How well do the fabric and pattern suit each other?
- Do the details and embellishment add to the project appropriately?
- Are they enough? Too much or just right?
- Is something missing?
They don't care about a silly puckered seam.
When you're the winner, and they're shooting the picture for Threads magazine, they'll fix the puckers in Photoshop. (Or we'll have our webmaster do it. She spends her life in Photoshop anyway.)
And you'll be on the home page of this site, too!
One more time. The rules:
Your jacket can be for women or men.
- You MUST buy the fabric and the pattern from Sew It Seams. (Of course!)
- We'll judge your jacket on its overall success - see the bulleted list above.
- Your jacket will spend a month at the store for judging and so everyone can see your great work! The winning jacket will stay an extra month - until the end of March.
- The winning jacket will move on to the National Jacket Challenge to compete with the winners from California, New York (okay, Syracuse) and everywhere in between for national bragging rights - and, of course, you'll have your picture, with your jacket, right in this spot on the home page of this NEW Sew It Seams web site!
Eligibility:
First, come into the store.
Then:
- Fill out and hand in your entry form.
- Buy your fabric and pattern. You must buy both from Sew it Seams.
- Deadline: Finish and deliver your jacket by close of business on January 30, 2010.
- We'll contact the winner by February 15 and show all the entries right here on the site!