So today I have, ummmm, even more jumpsuit mash up action.

Really, is there anything more satisfying as a sewist than taking two patterns you like and just mashing them up together!

Today on the menu, it’s the Amy Jumpsuit by Closet Case Patterns with the Peppermint Jumpsuit (this one is, of course, a FREE pattern).

So, I have previously sewn the Amy Jumpsuit by Closet Core patterns in its original form.

And, I’ve sewn it mashed up with the Carmella jumpsuit/boil suit by Closet Case.

I’ve sewn the Amy Jumpsuit with a modified squared off neckline.

And, finally, the latest member of the Amy Jumpsuit-esque amily – a mash up with the Peppermint Jumpsuit, designed by In the Folds and available for free download from Peppermint Magazine.

Oh and I also own a navy linen blend RTW Uniqlo jumpsuit which basically looks exactly the same as the original Amy Jumpsuit.

So, ummm, in case you can’t tell, I really like the leg shape of the Amy Jumpsuit!!

And when you like something, own five pairs, right? At least you can if you’re a sewist!

Linen blend love

This Amy-mint Jumpsuit is made from a fabric I hadn’t previously encountered – a blend of linen (60%) and tencel (40%) from Meter Meter. This is the “cinnamon” colour.

I find it a really fabulous combination. It definitely looks and feels more like linen and would say that, if you didn’t know what was in it, you would be hard pressed to distinguish it from linen on looks alone. But the tencel blend gives it an added softness and also helps it to have a really lovely drape.

And, you can never have too much soft and drapey, right?

Looking at these photos, I realise that it is perhaps a tad on the lighweight side for this pattern, you can see the line of the edge of the facing through the fabric.

Peppermint Jumpsuit

If you’ve come here from a blow by blow description of how to achieve this mash-up, I’m afraid I may dissapoint you somewhat.

But, in my usual style, I may be able to offer you some insight into how, umm, not to do it.

Let’s start with the Peppermint Jumpsuit. I used the size F of that pattern. I was pleasantly surprised to see that both my bust and waist measurements fell squarely in the same range for the Peppermint Jumpsuit, something which happens very rarely for me, so it felt serendipitous at the outset.

After reading a few suggestions online, I chose to modify the Peppermint jumpsuit so that it has its invisible zip opening at the front, rather than the back.

Because, well, ease of bathroom access.

This requires some very simple mods to the front and back facing and was not at all difficult to do.

Oh and speaking of zips, today’s lesson was do not drink loads of white wine while inserting your zip on Friday night, as you could very easily forget that you have shortened the zip from the top without yet securing it again, and proceed to completely pulling the zipper toggle off of the teeth completely.

Leaving you, of course, with nothing to do but drink more white wine until you can buy a replacement zip the next day!

So what I have done is taken effectively the bodice of the Peppermint Jumpsuit and mashed it with the pants of the Amy Jumpsuit. For convenience, since I had them cut out already, I used the pockets and waist ties from the Amy Jumpsuit.

So far, so good, right?

This is why one makes muslins…

But then, I went slightly awry.

I really did not want to print out all of the Peppermint Jumpsuit, so I looked at the PDF and just printed the sheets holding the”bodice” part. But I didn’t print far enough down so that I had the crotch curve on my pattern pieces.

Then I got out my Amy Jumpsuit pieces and I kind of used the arm hole as a reference point to line up the two patterns and transfer the Amy Jumpsuit leg onto the Peppermint jumpsuit top.

This totally didn’t work because the final product I created that way ended up sitting so far up my butt that you could …. (use your imagination, I”m not going to paint anymore of a visual picture than that…)

It was not at all wearable.

But it was pretty much finished and I could see that it was otherwise going to be soooo beautiful.

So a solution had to be found.

It consisted of cutting the finished jumpsuit open at the shoulder seam.

The Peppermint jumpsuit is finished with an all-in-one facing which gives it a beautiful finish from the inside.

It broke my heart to just have to cut straight through all that.

But it would have broken it more to have unpicked it all.

I then patched in a little tube of fabric into the shoulder, in order to lengthen my jumpsuit by just over an inch. I probably should have added about half an inch extra, cuz it is still a teeny tiny bit wedgie prone.

It’s actually still in the back of my mind to possibly go back and cut open the shoulders yet again and add in feature shoulder ties instead, thereby giving me enough torso room that my butt crack will remain totally free of any possible interference. (Ahhh, another one for the “things I never thought I would write” list).

So, in the end, with a little freestyle hacking, I’ve arrived at something I love.

Guess I’ll just have to think of this one as a truly amazing wearable muslin and use the knowledge I gained to add that damn 2-3 inches into the torso and ensure that my next version is perfection!

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