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Another sweatshirt dress – AC inspired

January 28, 2019

The 52 Week Sewing Challenge for this week was Sew Something Red. I already sewed up some underwear with some red in the fabric, but I wanted to do this, as well.

I have seen some Assassin’s Creed inspired hoodies on Pinterest with the red and black colors in them, and thought they looked cool.  I decided to cut apart a pattern I drafted for this one.

The base pattern is one I did for this blue sweatshirt dress I made in December. I love this thing, and wear it all the time. It is so comfy and warm. The only problem is that I feel it needs a little more room in the bust area, and these design modifications helped.  I really should have added more to the cowl, though.  It was a tight fit. The bamboo sweatshirt fleece I use is only two way stretch, so it tends to have a bit less give that a 4 way knit would have.

The tribal design on the middle front is one of my designs.  I took a picture of the pattern piece, and took it into Photoshop.  I placed half of the design over the picture, and warped it so it would fit the pattern piece. I then doubled it up, made it an .svg file in Illustrator and took it into the Silhouette software to cut it out.

I should have left a little more room at the top, though, since having to stretch it to fit the cowl made it too close to the edge.

The back has the piecing, too, only I ended up using smaller seam allowances.  I should have done the same for the front and back.  Oh well.  Things don’t always turn out great the first run of a new pattern draft.

This is so super comfy and warm!  I know I will be wearing it a lot this cold winter.

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