Dino Hoodie with tutorial

I am a terrible blogger! The photos for my christmas makes and the rest of the advent jars are totally disorganised so I’ve been avoiding sorting them out. (Plus I have a job!)

So I decided to break my silence with my first tutorial. (Drum roll….)

***This tutorial is for personal use only, please contact me if you wish to use it for comercial purposes*** 

These are  really easy to make (and I figured them out for myself so you probably don’t need this) They take about an hour.

You need:

A strip of fleece about 20cm wide – I like to use cheap Ikea blankets

A suitably coloured hoodie – this is the hardest part, every time I’m in a child’s clothes shop I scour the shelves for brown hoodies! This one is from next. The lining is blue so I went with blue fleece.

 

1. Fold the strip of fleece in half and measure it against your hoodie.

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2. Pour yourself a glass of wine (not strictly necessary but nice) and cut a zig zag spine along the non folded edge.

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3. Sew along the edge of the spine. I like to do two rows of stitching about 0.5cm apart.

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4.Fold the hoodie in half lining up the side seams. You could iron it to make a crease – I’m lazy so I don’t

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5. Cut it along the half way point at the back – I leave the top of the hood attached – it probably doesn’t matter ether way. The first time I did this I was really scared – it doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect so don’t sweat it.

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6. Turn the hoodie inside out and pin the spine so the folded edge mets the cut edge. Try and line up the stripes in the jumper – dont stress about it though.

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7. Sew  along the cut edge – as close as you dare. When I get to the tail I keep going so there’s some extra decorative stitching.

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8. Trim any loose edges, make sure you’ve got no holes and you’re done

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Ta da!

 

**If you don’t want to make your own and you’re interested in commissioning one of these or any hoodie please leave me a comment or email me at beth @ lysozyme.net  (without the spaces)**

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2 Responses to Dino Hoodie with tutorial

  1. nelliet says:

    This is the only hood that Ted will allow on his head. We love, love him in it. So cute!

  2. Green Eggs says:

    :-)I’m so glad! xx

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