And then suddenly the ugly duckling turned into a swan

I realize the title of this post is somewhat grandiose but I am pretty pleased with the transformation of the ugly fabric.  After trawling through a mountain of patterns I settled on the hoodie in the autumn 2007 Ottobre design magazine (number 16). Special thanks to sister N for pointing it out.

 Size 104cm

 This was fun to sew with all its extra little details such as the gathered yoke and sleeve caps

Oh no, the topstitching isn't perfect!?!

the rounded, gathered pockets

the hood with contrasting lining

  

 

and lots of topstitching.


 I only made a few changes to the pattern:

I lengthened the arms to make elasticized cuffs rather than adding a ribbed, fabric cuff



 I added bias binding along the zipper edge to create a tidier finish which is very similar to what I've seen on all the Icebreaker tops I wear

 

I inserted the zipper before attaching the hood so that I didn't have the exposed zipper ends topstitched over the hood

 

And luckily I had all of the extras at home including the zipper, bias binding in just the right shade of pink, the Lola zipper pull, and the lining fabric from Spoonflower (surprise, surprise)

 

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