Kristin Nicholas the knitwear designer has a terrific blog and a few days ago she had some photos of denim jackets embellished with lots of chain stitched embroidery. I have this denim jacket I bought on sale that I never really loved so this was a perfect time to get some embroidery floss and go to town.
The jacket already had some machine embroidery on the hem and the sleeve cuffs and it was really easy to just add more. I spent about 5 dollars total on the embroidery floss.
It really is pretty minimal from far away but I had such fun doing it I'm going to embroider the button band, pockets, and collar next.