Mick's entry for the competition.
Some pot towels, a table napkin and half a ripped quilt cover.
The pot towels are very heavy duty things, meant for catering and restaurant kitchens. They have a hard life, and when they get shabby and stained enough, they are "retired" by the commercial laundry that looks after them.
Table napkin is from the same source.
The quilt cover should need no explanation.
The other essential part of the project. A rusty, cut-steel sign that I bought from a junk shop years ago.
Soaked the napkin in salt water, layed the sign on top, and left alone for a couple of days to rust.
The salt makes the metal rust faster and also acts as a fixative for the rust to dye the cloth.
The finished item.
The pattern used was a free download for a sweatshirt. It was meant to be sewed from stretch fabric with ribbed cuffs and waistband. So it took quite a bit of hacking about to get it work in the pot-towel woven cotton, and with the quilt cover made into a full lining.
I didn't quite get it right and had to let the quarter zip in to make it a bit easier to get on and off.
(I'm blaming the pattern, ok? Nothing to do with me being a bit of a fat old git, these days.)
Gave the unlined garment a light tea-bag dye to take the whiteness off a bit.
The zip came from an old pair of jeans my daughter was trying to throw away.