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some tops, and a collar pattern

13/06/2016 8:47 pm \ 33 Comments \ Carolyn

I’ve been busy making a few tops…

SO! Exhibits A and B; two Nettie tops,both made in a really gorgeous, pale cream knit from Fabulous Fabrics, given to me by Mum. Now, I know I’ve said a gazillion times before that I have SO MANY white tops I should never ever need to make another one, but you see; a full-sleeve-length ivory Tshirt was one of my most worn wardrobe items last year. So, I’m pretty confident that these two boring things are probably going to be two of the most worn things in my winter wardrobe this year too! #ivorytopaddict. I managed to squeeze two tops from out of my piece of fabric, yes! *air fist punch*

I’ve fine tuned my Nettie pattern now for my own figure, but I still have to sorta “start from scratch” with fitting when I’m cutting out a fabric with a different stretch factor than those I’ve used previously with this pattern; and this fabric has quite a low stretch. So to be cautious I upsized quite a bit, cutting approximately and roughly a size 20, and then pinned the sides in to fit me. Also; my fabric was just big enough for the two Netties, but only-just-and-not-quite-perfectly-enough!! you know how it is… you MAKE IT WORK. They both have long sleeves coming right down to my wrists, but I had to cut Nettie B (below) just a little shorter at the hemline, so that I could get the two tops from my one piece of fabric. It sits at my high hip; Nettie A (above) is longer, plainer, with a high crew neck, finished with a grainline-cut band, applied as for this method here.

Along the back edge only, I topstitched the seam allowance down to the top, just inside the seam line. In both cases, the raw edges of sleeve and lower edge are finished with the overlocker, than turned under once and invisibly hand-slipstitched in place.

Nettie B, below, is slightly cropped and has a wide, boatneck collar.

I had some interest for this collar/neckline on instagram, so I’ve drawn up a pattern for it… it’s kinda rough-looking and I do plan to improve the presentation but just wanted to get it up here for now. It does however, work! and so I hope it does prove useful for someone!

neckline:collar

The method is as follows:

This is a collar/neckline designed for a close-fitting Tshirt in stretch knit fabric; the collar is a standup folded collar, and the neckline is wide and shallow. The idea is that you use your tried and true Tshirt pattern just ignoring the given neckline and substituting this neckline/collar for the one in your pattern. I used the Nettie pattern by Closet Case patterns, although any Tshirt pattern would do. Align the pattern pieces so the line of the shoulder seams and the centre front/back lines of this pattern are correctly aligned with the shoulder seams and front and back centre folds of your Tshirt pattern, and cut the neckline accordingly. Seam allowances are 1cm (3/8″), so if the Tshirt pattern you are using has a different seam allowance, align shoulder stitching lines (dotted lines) lines of the shoulder seam, rather than the cutting lines.

Cut the neckband/collar, with the short edges on the grain line. Sew the collar short edges together, right sides together. Fold the resulting “ring”of fabric in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, aligning raw edges… pin to the Tshirt neckline right sides together; distributing the length of the collar evenly around the neckline. Stitch using a 1cm seam allowance, and finish the raw edges with overlocking or zig-zag, as desired.

If you use this pattern, then please do leave me a comment and let me know how it goes. I’m always thrilled to get feedback 🙂

Now for some more tops, hoodies…! Smug self back-patting for unselfish sewing commences right here, since neither of these are for me

Exhibit C; I made a grey hoodie for Sam, to fulfil his birthday request… this is the same self-drafted pattern I’ve used previously for hooodies for each of my boys; and the seventh and eighth time I’ve used the pattern. The best thing about these hoodies in my opinion is the rather nice combined collar/hood, and I’ve previously written a tutorial on how to make this collar, here. Sam wanted grey, and the addition of a bit of red was my idea. I just liked the idea of some little contrast and the red seemed cheerful and fun for winter, and a bit more interesting than if it had just been plain grey. The rather gorgeous warm, grey terry fleece is from Spotlight, and the red is cut from an old Tshirt from my refashioning bag.

aaaaand Exhibit D; a Rayman Hoodie for Sam to wear to ComicCon. The same pattern, and again to fulfil his specific request! I bought some warm purple Tshirt ribbing from Spotlight, simply because it was the perfect colour. The white circle and the red hoodie bit were both cut from two old Tshirts from my refashioning bag.

And that’s it!… well; for now, mwahahahahahahaaaaaaa. *she twirls her cape and dramatically sweeps off to the sewing lair, maniacal laughter radiating in her wake*

Details of all clothing in this post:

Top; modified Nettie by Closet Case patterns
Skirt; Vogue 1247, yellow corduroy dyed caramel, details here
Tights; self drafted, details here and my tutorial for making your own tights pattern is here
Boots; made by me, details here
Cardigan; hand-knitted by me in Jo Sharp yarn, details here,
Cowl; my own design, mustard yarn, details and pattern here

Top; modified Nettie by Closet Case patterns
Skirt; Jade by Paprika patterns, details here

3) and 4)

Hoodie; self drafted pattern, my tutorial for making the combined collar/hood is here

Posted in: sewing, Uncategorized \ Tagged: Closet Case files, daily outfit, hoodie, Nettie, own design, pattern tutorial, top

3 hoodies

27/12/2015 2:33 pm \ 28 Comments \ Carolyn

In other Christmas “making” I also made hoodies for my three menfolk; Craig, and for Tim and Sam. For the last few years I’ve made summer shirts for them, but this year I wanted to do something different. And all of them love wearing hoodies! so bam! easy decision really.

Hmmm, yes, I had to get Bessie to model them, who is shaped very differently from each of my guys, of course!! but I took these pictures before I wrapped them up to pop under the tree and haven’t had the opportunity to get the boys to model them for pictures. Not to mention that it’s been 30C+ every day… phew! so no one wants to wear them just yet! Pictures with them actually IN their new Christmas stuff will have to wait for a little while…

I used my pattern taken from an old hoodie of Craig’s, that had a really cool style of hood/collar combined; it sits really nicely and looks a bit more stylish than the regular two-piece no-frills hood. If anyone’s interested I once wrote a tutorial on this collar/hood, with pictures of the pieces if you’d like to have a go at it.

Over the years since I first drew the pattern out I’ve had to slightly alter it and custom fit to each of my boys each time I’ve made it. They keep doing annoying things like working out and growing taller with longer arms and gaining a bit here, losing a bit there as time goes on. So it’s always a bit more of an exercise than just whipping out a pattern and zooming it up with the greatest of ease…. NOT!

Anyway, I’m not complaining. I love making stuff for my family 🙂

I went to Spotlight and bought up big on stripe-y, fluffy jerseys in a winter weight. And the beanies in the previous post? I chose the colours to match so that each man’s hoodie/beanie is a nicely toning ensemble in their colours.

Sam’s hoodie, at top; is light grey and white, with a grey beanie to match, because I think he looks great in grey. I bought some pale grey marled lightweight jersey to do the hood and the kangaroo pockets, because I feared it would look a little too pyjama-y, or sort of juvenile or something. I don’t know what it is about the pale grey stripe that made me worry about this, because… it’s funny, can’t logically explain why I have this thought, but I reckon you get away with a full hoodie in a blue stripe whereas in pale grey not so much, looks bit cheap or something. Can’t explain it. In any case I just intuited having a contrast in this particular colour would be a good decision and I’m glad I did it.

For Craig, I chose a muted air-force blue, with a small white pin-stripe. And with a red beanie for him, because he likes red and blue in winter and tends to wear them together a lot.

The air force blue looked pretty cool and right up his alley and it’s a very nice weight, I loved it upon first sight. However, after washing it and hanging it out to dry, then laying it out for cutting, I discovered to my amazement that the “stripe” actually was more of a gentle, slight “wave” of stripes across the fabric looking like this ” ~ “, NOT a straight horizontal stripe. AAAAUGH!! and being “slight” of course, means it really comes across like a bit of a boo-boo, rather than look like an intentional wave, which I could work into the design somehow. Nope, this just looked OFF.

Grrr. Anyway, I did my absolute best with it, pulled it into shape in some places, cut out a wee bit dodgily in other places where it didn’t matter, like the kangaroo pocket. I know the pocket appears to be not drastically far off straight in the picture but trust me, that’s an optical illusion created by clever cutting and placement!! Also the side seam stripes don’t match, the most obvious area where the fault can be seen. He really likes it though, so I’m putting aside my dumb perfectionist tendencies and just enjoying that he enjoys it 🙂

For Tim, I chose a navy blue with ivory stripe and his beanie is the matching navy blue. This fabric was the thickest of the lot, slightly ribbed, and is toasty warm. For the drawstring in the hood, the fabric was too thick to work and so I used a strip of Craig’s hoodie fabric, folded outwards so the solid coloured blue is on the outside.

Oh, the hoodie strings… in each case I made a self-fabric drawstring for the hoodies, bar Tim’s, as explained. To make a drawstring in the jersey, I cut a 1-2cm strip of fabric across the grain. Most jerseys have a natural tendency to roll or curl up across the grain, and you can use this to full advantage while making your drawstring.

Just allow the fabric to curl up just like it wants to, and stitch it with a zig-zag stitch in a width set to just under the width of your finished strip. Start from the centre, because it looks neater that way with the central start/stop point hidden inside the hood casing, and finish at each end.

Thread the flat drawstring through a wool needle and pull it through the hood casing; cut both ends equally to size, then tie off in a simple knot, so they won’t slip back through the eyelet at all. Easy peasy, and colourwise looks like it was tailor-made to go with the hoodie perfectly, which it was, of course, haha. Well, by that I mean that we all know how difficult, if not impossible it can be to get drawstrings to colour-match our fabrics perfectly? mm hmmm.

Problem solved!

The first three hoodies that I made from this pattern can be seen here, here and here; hoodie tutorial here

Posted in: sewing \ Tagged: Craig, hoodie, own design, Sam, Tim, tutorial

blue Pattern Magic hoodie; 6 different ways

17/07/2015 10:40 am \ 12 Comments \ Carolyn

During a recent closet clean-out I decided to bid adieu to this royal blue hoodie type of a thing. I made it a few years ago from Pattern Magic 3, and have worn it to death!
Cue orchestral flourish, aaaaand, in sonorous tones, “Blue Pattern Magic hoodie thing; This Is Your Life…!” *rising swell of stirring music*
My initial construction post is here… from the word go I’ve enjoyed wearing this thing. The deep royal blue worked with everything and the shape is kinda interesting and unique while managing to be still plain enough that it became practically a basic in my wardrobe. My favourite view of it has always been the back view where the “hoodiness” of it was the most apparent. The front view is plainer, with a subtle drapey elegance.
The fabric was initially given to me by my friend C from her mother’s stash, and I was just mucking about when I threw it together. It was really just a wearable trial of the Pattern Magic design and I didn’t realise how very handy it would become. I’ve tossed it the suitcase several times to take it overseas with me because it was such a terrific little wardrobe mixer. Thus it has featured in loooooads of our holiday photos 🙂

I’ve promised myself over and over again that I really need to make this up a second time in decent fabric and I reckon finally putting away this old one could be just the excuse I need 🙂

Chosen from dozens, these are six of my favourite daily outfits with it…
Barring shoes, all clothes I am wearing in these pictures are made by me.
In the early stages of its life I tended to wear it just like a Tshirt, as in at left; worn with hot pink linen shorts and hand-knitted Noro socks while hiking in Lake Como, and at right, worn with my ombre-dyed velveteen skirt in Milan…

I discovered it looked really good when worn over a longer sleeved Tshirt, like as a tunic, and this became my most preferred way to wear it.
At left; with striped Tshirt, over-dyed blue corduroy skirt and black woollen tights, in Stockholm; and at right with a green bodysuit, green corduroy skirt, navy blue tights in Helsingor, Denmark

At left; worn with purple Tshirt, knitted green handwarmers, overdyed brown denim mini skirt and blue tights in Iceland, and at right; finally, non-exotically, just at home, worn with red bodysuit, blue corduroy skirt, maroon scarf and orange tights.

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: 6 different ways, hoodie, Pattern Magic 3

#hoodie

22/01/2015 6:29 am \ 35 Comments \ Carolyn

I love hoodies. And I love dark browns, crinkly linen and loose relaxed-fit comfy loungewear. Despite all those loves, it’s taken me a ridiculously long time to finish this hoodie. I started it before I left for Melbourne last year! woops!
I used Burda 09/2014-115, a tunic/hoodie pattern; and this lovely deep, deep, burnt chocolate linen, that I bought from Tessuti’s in Melbourne on our previous, 2013 trip there… extra woops! Sometimes I hoard lovely fabrics for forever and feel guilty about it, but really it’s only because I can’t think of the Perfect Project which it would like to become. Some fabrics tell you straight away, whilst others sit there and taunt you with their loveliness while never giving any hint of what they want to be.

Anyway, finally I made something.
To be honest, this is version two.
The pattern is actually for a tunic a good 6″ longer than this, and that is how I made it. I had visions of those lovely chic European lagenlook-y ladies wearing long and loose flowing clothes in earthy neutral shades. I started out with high hopes, made the hoodie/tunic. Felt really good about it, all went together smoothly, happy with my decision, almost finished it; perfectly hand narrow-hemmed shirt-hem and all. It was easily long enough to be a dress.
Tried it on, and was immediately struck by the fact that I had made myself a Friar Tuck robe. Yes, in its long version I looked exactly like Friar Tuck. Do I want to look like Friar Tuck? Emphatically, no. Disastrous. Dejectedly shoved it aside for, um; a few months. Hmmm, how time flies!
Anyway, I really did want it to work, and so just recently I drastically shortened that hem and rolled the sleeves up. Massive improvement. I left off the waist tie channel and tie. I reckon that as a boxy, shorter tunic, with rolled up sleeves, it still had that relaxed, fairly oversized, comfy vibe that I was after… stylishly chic, I hope!
The dress has pockets and so I kept those, cutting and re-hemming it to just below that level. The button placket is invisibly sewn closed, because all buttons just seemed either the wrong size or colour, or just plain wrong against the fabric.

For some reason that now escapes me, I felt allergic to the idea of self-fabric bands to hold up the rolled sleeves. At the time I felt they would look unutterably boring and/or too match-y. So I made some sleeve holder-up thingies from skinny metallic belts. It felt like a good idea at the time, and luckily I’m still quite pleased with them, feel like they bring something interesting to the table, on what is otherwise a quite plain and featureless hoodie. I’ve tried wearing the hoodie with a few other of my clothes and it’s interesting that that little bit of silver-y, pewter-y metallic on the sleeves really helps the hoodie to “go” with a lot of my other clothes far better than it would without.

The neckline/hood seam is hidden underneath a band, cut from the leftovers from this dress. It felt quite fortuitous that the brown stripes were wide enough that I could do this, with barely a hint of cream pin-stripe to be seen!

Later edit: Inside the sleeve tabs, and thank you Jenna-Lynn for asking 🙂
I made the belt sleeve tabs by buckling the belts and cutting down to size keeping the buckle area intact. Using a nail, I hand-drilled four little holes for stitching, two at each end. The outside holes are hidden underneath the belt overhang. I put a little wad of folded fabric inside the sleeve between the belts to stabilise and strengthen the stitching area, and stitched through my drilled holes firmly and securely using thick upholstery cotton.

Details:
Hoodie; Burdastyle 09/2014, 115 shortened, of burnt chocolate-brown crinkly linen
Shorts; Burda 7723, grey/cream pinstripe linen, details here and my review of this pattern here

Disclaimer; this pattern was given to me by Burdastyle; however I chose it myself from the large range of patterns on offer because I liked it. All opinions are most definitely my own. There are no affiliate links on my blog and never will be… I’m in it because I love sewing 🙂

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: Burdastyle 9/2014-115, daily outfit, hoodie, Sienna, top

a “Norwegian” jacket

29/09/2014 9:29 am \ 47 Comments \ Carolyn

I’ve made up my Norwegian
souvenir fabric.

Pining for the fjords? me? well, maybe just a little 😉

I
bought this divinely thick, strong, and sturdy cotton drill in Oslo during our
Scandinavian holiday, with dreams of making a boxy, nautically flavoured little
hoodie.

And done, and dusted. 🙂

I
used pattern 108 from Burdastyle magazine 10/2009. In the magazine it’s
made in felted wool, is lined, and has a fur-edged hood. I fancied it made up as
a lighter, warm weather thing, and knew it would work out perfectly ok in that role too.
Mine is unlined and I finished all the raw edges off using my
overlocker so it all looks nice and neat inside. The fabric is beautiful quality, actually quite
thick and wind-resistant; so even sans lining it’s turned out to be a rather cosy little jacket. Brisk spring breezes? ha! I laugh in your general direction!

The
pocket, pocket flap edges and the interesting shape of the yoke pieces are all highlighted with navy blue piping, for which I used readymade bias binding.
I’ve had this in my stash for decades, no kidding, and thought,
yay! I’m finally going to use this up! Obviously, I then did not have
quite enough, which meant I had to buy a bit more. Which meant now I still
have some in my stash. Doh! It’s a conspiracy!!!

I
ummed and aahed about the front and pocket closure… first thinking I would
put in big white chunky zip, rejected that; then thinking metal dog-bite clips,
but the ones I found weighed quite a lot and would’ve dragged the jacket down. I wanted something a bit different, but it still had to be lightweight. The magazine version called for toggles, since it was supposed to be a wintery thing, and finally I thought a summery version of a toggle would be a fun thing to
have.

I made mine using cotton twill tape and cotton rope. My Dad
made the lovely wooden buttons, aren’t they beautiful? Many years ago I
asked if he could make me one for my little brown cardigan, and he generously
made several so I would have a selection from which to choose. And I’m
thrilled I had enough to finish this little jacket. Thanks Dad!

I
had bought enough of the cotton rope to put in the hood as a drawstring, so I
sewed miniature teeny buttonholes in the hood front and inserted the rope in the
self-facing casing. The hood seams are flat-felled.

Doesn’t scream Norway? Well, I can hear it quietly whispering Norway, in my shell-like ear at least 🙂

I
put a lot of time into getting that piping and those toggles positioned just exactly right and I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I particularly love having Dad’s wooden buttons on it!

Details:

Jacket; Burda style magazine 10/2009, 108, cotton drill from Norway

Dress; Burda 8071, made from an old polo Tshirt, details here

also white/navy blue Tshirt underneath, details here

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: Burdastyle 10/2009-108, daily outfit, hoodie, jacket, Sienna

an Icelandic hoodie for Tim

15/08/2014 2:37 pm \ 27 Comments \ Carolyn

*another week of furious knitting later* and I’ve made an Icelandic hoodie for Tim, my birthday present to him. He chose the Grein design on p108 of Knitting with Icelandic Wool, the knitting book I bought while in Iceland, but wanted it to be a zip-up hoodie.
I guess I should have seen that coming; a hoodie is far more his thing, and since obviously you want them to want to wear it, I complied. It’s not hard to convert the jumper to a hoodie, but it’s a little bit more work and takes about one extra ball. The hoodie is still knitted in one piece like Sam’s jumper with two short grafted seams underneath each armhole. However, instead of knitting in the round I just split the front in two, continued knitting on for the hood, and afterwards neatened up the opening front edges with one row of single crochet. Finally I sewed in an open ended zip (Spotlight) by machine. Which means yes, unlike Sam’s jumper which was mostly a blissfully heavenly affair of mindless non-stop knitting, in this case I had to turn around and do purl rows as well. Not quite as quick and mindless as knitting in the round, something I find to be an enjoyably zen-like meditative exercise. I had to actually think about it, harrumph…
The book doesn’t have any adult sized hoodies that I could use the pattern for – and can I just say, what were they thinking?! – so in consultation with Craig’s Icelandic hoodie that we bought over there I knitted Tim’s the following way:

After finishing the yoke pattern and before knitting the neck hole ribbing, you have 72 st on the needle and wrong side facing…
change to 4.5mm needle, P one row, inc 1 st in centre of row (73 st)
(K1 P1) repeat until last st, K1
(P1 K1) repeat until last st, P1
rep last 2 rows once (4 rows of ribbing)
change to 6mm needle;
(P1 K1) twice, P1, K to last 5 st, (P1 K1) twice, P1
(P1 K1) twice, P1, P to last 5 st, (P1 K1) twice, P1
rep last 2 rows until work measures 35cm from last rib row
divide row in half, fold halves wrong sides together, and graft stitches together.
This gives you a plain stocking stitch hood with a wide moss stitch border.

I used Alafoss Lopi, in the colours, from left:
indigo (9959), light indigo (9958), light denim heather (0008), ecru heather (9972) and black heather (0005).

Actually, using that ecru heather, a leftover from Sam’s jumper, was a punt. The white-ish parts of this jumper were supposed to be ash heather, a pale grey, however I ended up having to use most of the that ball for Sam’s jumper. And since I ended up with more of the ecru heather leftover than I did of the ash heather, I used that, hoping that there might be enough to do the pattern in this jumper. The gods were smiling upon me, because there was, just enough!
~~Funny~~ barely amusing story; the night I was getting close to the end of the ecru heather strip I stayed up til, like 12.30 or 1am or something crazy like that, knitting like a mad thing, because I just could not stand the suspense; would I have enough of the ecru heather, or would I not?? I HAD to know!!
The relief when I did was, er, palpable.
Yeah, my life is filled with gripping moments like that 😉
And now, well! I only finished the hoodie today and I’m actually dying to leap straight into a new knitting project, like, right now! start a rather special new design that I came across recently.
But my wrists are aching. 🙁
Maybe a little break is in order .

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: Alafoss, hoodie, Knitted, Knitting with Icelandic Wool, Tim

The Alessa hoodie

30/07/2013 2:50 pm \ 46 Comments \ Carolyn

… so called because Alessa of Farbenfreude gave this fabric to me in a recent giveaway… thank you so much Alessa!
It is very nice fabric, a largish piece of soft fluffy charcoal grey non-stretchy knit stuff with a diagonally printed black check pattern, and a smaller piece of raspberry red woven fabric with an almost chenille-y quality to it. They went so nicely together so I decided to combine the two in one garment.

The cat should give an idea of the scale here; there was not much fabric and I had to get creative to make the most of the small pieces. And just to clarify; that is not a whinge… I LOVE sewing challenges like this!
I made a slightly A-line tunic with plain set-in sleeves, and I cut the neckline and hoodie piece using KwikSew 3667. I’ve used this hood piece in several garments now, and this pattern was also given to me, by Mary of biblioblog a few years ago. I am so lucky to have such nice blogging friends!

Um, the hoodie looks quite different from my initial plan, which wasn’t a hoodie at all. This is a recurring phenomenon, I make plans but frequently change my mind once I get cutting. Indecisive? maybe! … but at least something will get made. And I’m very pleased with the contrasting hood and welt pockets.
Welted pockets … woot! I had just barely enough fabric for these! I used the pocket piece from Vogue 1115, and the contrasting welt is not a separate piece; to save fabric I cut the upper pocket piece with an interfaced extension at the opening, which folds back on itself to the inside becoming an integrated welt… doing this skips a seam underneath, resulting in a little less fabric bulk. I might just stick to this method from here on out!

All the raw seam allowance edges are overlocked together, and then I applied a cheat’s version of flat-felling because the fabric is quite “bouncy” and the seams didn’t press flat very satisfactorily. This involved just laying the overlocked seam allowance down to one side and top-stitching them to the garment.

Details:
Hoodie; self-drafted, with the hood piece from KwikSew 3667
Jeans; Burda 7863 modified, ivory stretch denim, details here
Boots; nylon, from Zomp shoes

Posted in: Uncategorized \ Tagged: daily outfit, hoodie, Kwik Sew 3667, own design, pocket, top

‘nother hoodie

18/09/2012 5:51 am \ 19 Comments \ Carolyn

I’ve been on such a sewing bendahh lately!! making loads of stuff for the family as well as myself. Must be the influence of spring; new growth in the garden and blissfully warm days lend themselves to thoughts of rejuvenating, renewing; everything in one’s life. I’ve been cleaning out cupboards, sorting through wardrobes, and adding new clothes to our lives… 🙂
Somebody stop me!!
So I’ve made hoodies recently for Craig and for Sam; and Andrea observantly noted that I do have another man in my life; our eldest son Tim. 😀 I love making things for my boys (as well as my girl, of course) but I feel especially super proud when I see my boys heading out in stuff made by me. Seems more of a stamp of cool-approval. imo it is easy to make great girl-y stuff, but it is a much bigger challenge to make stuff that gets the thumbs up from a young man.
I used the same pattern copied from an old RTW one; and size-adjusted for Tim’s lanky build.
Tim looks really handsome in grey, and I still had some of this grey marle jersey from KnitWit. It is the same fabric I used for my clipped wings top as well as my grey jersey lingerie set. Luckily; the store has had this in stock for months, which is utterly fab since I’ve nipped back to buy just a little bit more twice now! I cut out all the hoodie pieces of this fabric and got halfway through construction. Then had overwhelming and crippling doubts that it was all going to be a bit too unrelentingly pale, featureless and boring, and so at the last moment I re-cut the hood and pocket pieces from a khaki/caramel coloured cotton jersey and used these instead. I bought the khaki jersey from KnitWit as well, last year some time.
The hoodie has a kangaroo pocket, and the sleeves and lower edge were finished with a long folded ring-band using this method. Tim wanted the sleeves over-long, so the band method is a good way to add length to a sleeve without having to remove the length required for a hem.

The hood/drawstring-collar was constructed using this method.

I’m really pleased with the two-tone result. When Sam saw it he asked for a two-tone one too…. so I had to promise that his next hoodie will be like this too… (sigh)
And: the very last leftover pieces of this pale grey marle cotton jersey was yesterday subjected to a dye-bath…. hehehe; and I am super thrilled with how the colour has worked out :)) Results to appear here soon!