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Sewing: My Yellow Rose Hoodie
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My Yellow Rose Hoodie

The front of my Hoodie

The Back of my Hoodie
The Stitch samples
Detail of the front overlap
I used white knit for lining the hood
The front of my Hoodie

Learn It

This project was made as part of a Craftsy course:
Sewing With Knits: 5 Wardrobe Essentials »

Instructions

Follow Meg in the Craftsy course sewing With Knits. She is teaching you how to do this Hoodie the easy way. Use some of your time to Make Stitch samples on the fabric you are going to work with. Prepare everything before you start cutting and sewing - then this Hoodie will fly out of the sewing machine, fast and ready to wear. Wearing it now when I write this!

Difficulty:

Category: Sewing

Type of item: Clothing

For: Women

Style: Casual


Materials

A vintage knit with Yellow roses from my stash. Think its acrylic and wool

What was your inspiration?

Meg and my stash of knit fabric. And all of the other students in the course. When I see what they do it encourage me to make my own version of Megs pattern

What are you most proud of?

That I finaly used that Knit fabric. Allt the roses have waited a long time to transform into a garment.
That I added a lining in the hood. I did it because at the reverse side of the fabric the roses looked as yellow and green strips and that was not good inside the hood. With the lining it came out much better I think.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

Follow Meg in the Craftsy course sewing With Knits. She is teaching you how to do this Hoodie the easy way. Use some of your time to Make Stitch samples on the fabric you are going to work with.
Prepare everything before you start cutting and sewing - then this Hoodie will fly out of the sewing machine, fast and ready to wear. I am wearing it now when I write this!

 

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JuliN on craftsy.com
Nov 27, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Matching stripes can be really hard. Nice work! And your hoodie looks comfy and like you could wear it all the time :)
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 27, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank You JuliN. It is comfy, and I had a lott of that fabric and made two! Did som adjustment on the sleeves, added a little to the ease and made a fu
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 27, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Oooops, Made a Full bust adjustment so the front should hang straight down from the bust. As you can see from the photos the first version is a little like an A-line from the bust down. Hope you understand what I mean.
Janinemah on craftsy.com
Nov 15, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
GOOD JOB on matching up the strips! Very nice.
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 15, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank you Janineman. I have to say that I was a little proud of that (blushing) It was not perfect but almost perfect... The jersey walked away for me at some points but I can live with that small differens
Sage owl on craftsy.com
Nov 15, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Lining the hood is a great idea. It looks lovely.
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 15, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank You Sage owl. It was more work but I think it made the hoodie more "grown up" and dressed (hope this make sens)
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 13, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
I think this fabric is called Jacquard jersey, its rather heavy and have a lot of threads from the rose pattern on the wrong side.
CraftyNHmom on craftsy.com
Nov 13, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Great fabric choice! Cute hoodie!!!
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 13, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank You CraftyNHmom!
Lynne O on craftsy.com
Nov 12, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Wow, that is just lovely. What beautiful fabric!
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 13, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank you Lynne O. I have a lot of it in yellow and some with red roses, got it from a friend and he had got it from an old fabric store when it closed. Probably 30-40 years old . I think I adjust the Pattern a litle and make one more
Scheri Manson on craftsy.com
Nov 12, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Ewa it is so perfect. Was is difficult to do in sweater knit? Did you use walking foot and zig zag stitch? I would love to try a sweater knit.
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 13, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank you Scheri. I have no walking foot so I did all the sewing with my regular foot. I think changing the pressure of the presser foot is one of Megs good advice . i did that and made some samples of different stretch stitches. I think the thin zig zag stitch wich I lenghten to 4.5 was the best and used that in all the seams. My knit is not a sweater knitI think you can call it a heavy jersey and it ravel easy so I had to do something with the edges. I used the three step zig zag on the edges because i found that those stitches was softest and did not stiffen up the edges. Hope you understand my english....
Eva testar on craftsy.com
Nov 12, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Thank you so much for your kind words "deckerston" and "In my studio" . This Craftsy class is fun and easy to follow. I did sew a lot for me and my son in the early 1990 - but that is over 20 years ago. Megs class Sewing with Knits fresh my skills up and adds a lot of smart and easy ways to do things.
In My Studio on craftsy.com
Nov 12, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Gorgeous !
deckerston on craftsy.com
Nov 11, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
you must be a professional, it looks great