Pinspiration: Hoodie How To

I don’t know about you but I can always use a good hoodie for a lazy day, an extra cold day up home or just a cover up on my way to the gym.  Carl has lots of boring and plain “old workplace” sweatshirts collecting dust in his closet.  Pair that up with this hoodie revamp I found thanks to Pintrest and I have myself another pinspiration.

via See Kate Sew.

This is another great beginner friendly tutorial to follow.  But it did get tricky trying to figure out how much to take in.  I had to use my seam ripper a lot more than my last project, but the end result turned out pretty fun.  I forgot to take a “before” of the hoodie I tweaked, but this one is pretty similar.  Just picture it with a zipper down the front rather than as a pullover.  It started out as an XL.  The bigger, the better so you have more to work with.

And here’s the after:

I had to get a little creative towards the end when I realized I couldn’t remove the “old workplace” logo without making a hole.  I used some leftover leaves I’d cut from felt to use on a Thanksgiving garland and it did the trick nicely.  (We’ll see how it all holds up once I wash it.)  I just stitched them over the top of the logo with some embroidery floss Pretty fun, eh?  And yes, those are real buttonholes.  They’re surprisingly not too difficult.  Another shout out to my user-friendly sewing machine!  So go raid your husband or little bro’s closet (since my little brothers aren’t so little anymore) and give this one a try!  He’ll benefit from the closet purge and you’ll have something new to add to your wardrobe.  Let’s do this!

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