Military inspired hoodie

January 16, 2018 Stacy

I have been meaning to tackle another of these hoodie jackets since I made the first one. Knowing how long it was going to take definitely made my hold off on it, though. I ended up putting it in my #makenine challenge so I was sure to get it done!

I also saw this jacket on Pinterest and decided that I needed to steer my hoodie in that direction.

I was already planning on a navy and black one (bamboo fleece from Nature’s Fabrics), so it would work well with jeans and leggings, either blue or black. I did this one pretty similar to the first one, except for omitting the back yoke, slimmed the sides a bit, and moved the location of the pockets and the lacing. I should have kept them where they were before, in hindsight.

The pockets hit in a bad spot on the hips and then the lacing is pulling them open. Le *sigh*. We’ll see how much it irritates me before pulling out all the stitching.

These were the pattern pieces from the first one, so here were the main pieces (omitting the yoke).

It isn’t so much the many pieces that make this a pain, it is more that you need to use the sewing machine to place many of the pieces and the topstitching. You are sewing seams several times at this pace. Plus how I have the neckline is very confusing, so if I were to make this again (or make it into a pattern for sale) then changes would need to be made.

The back detail is created by taking a 6″ piece of pleather, marking for the eyelets, using a hole punch for the holes, and placing the eyelets. I have an eyelet crimper that works pretty well. The lacing is elastic, since it is more comfortable.

I ordered the zipper and buttons from Pacific Trimmings. The zipper is really nice quality, and I ordered several types of metal buttons. I think a post button that I ordered would have looked nicer, but it would have stuck up too much. This sit nice and flat.