I put the vest on the hubs and marked with the chalk where his shoulders were. Sew, using a straight stitch and 1/2 inch seams. Pin the right sides of each front piece to the right sides of the back piece. Looking pretty good so far! Love all that texture. Since fleece doesn’t fray, I only folded it down once. Once I was done texturizing each front piece, I hemmed it along the edges 1/4 inch. I sewed a little strip of fleece down over the diagonal line I made because that’s what it looked like I should do. Just look at the picture, it will make more sense. So you’ll have sewn vertical lines running down under the chest, and diagonal lines above. The effect is pretty subtle when you stare at it, but it really adds to the overall costume and it’s totally worth the extra half our of work.įorgot to take a picture, but do the same thing for the lines above the…I think it’s called the yolk of the vest? That diagonal thing along the chest. Sew a straight line along the lines you drew. Remember how I pointed out that the vest has cool texture? You could probably use some sort of corduroy or something…but fleece was on sale and I didn’t have to finish the edges if I didn’t want to, score one for the cheap/lazy woman! Anyway, I got the idea from I loved how the lines and lines and lines of sewing made pretty texture, so I used the same technique her! Using a picture of Flynn’s vest as a guide, I drew out where I wanted to sew. Three pieces now, a back piece and two front pieces. I added a little bit to the front (which is why it’s slanted in the front instead of straight) so there would be room for the vest to button. Lay the t shirt back down, trace it again, but this time NOT on the fold (right side up again). Add a little extra room in the shoulders too, because Flynn has sleeves! Cut it out. Trace around the t shirt (I used chalk) with an extra half inch for seam allowance. (Depending on if you got regular fleece or anti pill fleece, your fabric may or may not have a right/wrong side.) Turn the t shirt inside out, stuff the sleeves in, fold it in half, and lay it down on your folded fabric (right side up). Ok, that was just me because I had to figure this all out along the way Husband’s t shirt (or little man’s or whoever this is for).But I’ll walk you through everything else I did I decided to forgo the collar of the vest, something told me David wouldn’t be too thrilled with such a high collar. I thought his vest would be totally easy, but it turns out there are a lot of little details that I didn’t even notice on his vest! I did my best to point them out with the help of Picnik.
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