Jonny B Good

I love Sundays in the shop - not too many customers and no business distractions so I get heaps done. My first job for today was to put the name "Jonny" in yellow letters on the back of a Letterman jacket. As you do.
The jacket is for an up coming production of Zombie Prom the Musical.

I had to play around with the fonts to get one that would fit. The closest I could find to trad Letterman font is Rockwell, but a word with ONN in it was hard to fit in a decent size. So I used Stencil and adapted it. I just printed the letters out in outline from a MS Word doc, size 430 front no less, over three pages!
Next I outlined them all in black vivid, shaving the N's down even more. Then I turned them over and traced the letters through onto Steam-a Seam. Amazing that even on a dark table, with the letters turned over, and two layers of paper on the Steam-a-Seam, I could still easily make out the vivid.

After pressing the Steam a Seam onto yellow felt, I then cut the letters out, paper backing and all. A simple matter of peeling the paper off, and I have lovely, slightly tacky stick on letters!

To give the name a nice curve, I grabbed a 20" cake board to use as a guide. One of the many advantages of owning a shop full of completely random things!

A final pressing to attach the letters and there you have it, thoughtfully modelled by a customer who happened to come in just as I finished it. It was a tad large for the poor lad, who is a very styley design student. He did not understand my instructions to pose like Elvis. Oh, the young!

And yes, it is not meant to have an H, apparently there is a song about him being Jonny without an H! :)
Zombie Prom is on 27-29 September at the Whitereia Theatre on Vivian St. Musical direction by my fab friend Michael, co-recipient of the recent Red and Black quilt. Which is how I got involved, OF COURSE.
Unfortunately I couldn't help them with a Carmen Miranda costume, not having one in my collection, nor the time to make one. Alas! would have been such fun!!

I said Carmen Miranda, not Miranda Hart!

UPDATE: Stupid lettering wouldn't stay put, by the next day it was peeling off. So, I split the lining open across the back, and sewed it all down, using my embroidery foot with the dog feed dropped. It didn't take long. Then I sutured zigzagged the lining up again. The patient came through just fine!