Two days before his 11th birthday, P was moaning about how nobody was making enough of a fuss and he doubted he'd "even get a homemade T-shirt this year". Well, as soon as I heard what a "special tradition" that was I thought I'd better give him his lousy birthday sweater after all!
Two nights before his birthday I quickly traced off the pullover from Jalie 3355 and rummaged through the stash for sweater knits and ribbing.
All three of these fabrics had only just enough for the this sweater and nothing left and they seemed to go together nicely so the cutting was done.
Then, of course, I decided it needed some kind of decoration. I found a bike chain love heart image on the web and used my (still) on loan Silhouette Cameo to cut it from iron-on vinyl. It was fiddly to place all the bits and iron it on, but it's kinda cool and he liked it.
To be honest, part of the reason I had put off making him anything was that I had already put in a purchase order for this sweater from Fyxo, with it's amusingly ambiguous bike love slogan.
But, it hadn't arrived in time. (I know, I could have made it myself, but I like to support people with cool ideas, and Andy has so many cool ideas!)
And as you can see, when it did arrive it had an extra bit of printing that I hadn't expected and so really should have been my bike love sweater! :) He got that one too and adores it.
I got a little bit fancy with the Jalie pattern and added a back neck binding using the instructions from the Basic InsTinct Tee.
And then I added one of Kylie and the Machine's cool labels in the side seam. I wish I'd thought to iron it straight first, as I stitched it in straight but it was folded/printed slightly crooked. Tiny details that weren't going to slow me down the night before the birthday.
I'm very happy with the fit of this pullover pattern. I made size O, with no adjustments, not even to sleeve length. It's so great to know that I have a pattern company that I can pretty much pick a size and make it and it fits the kids perfectly. I mucked up the sizing a bit on my Jalie for adults pattern sewing, but that's entirely my fault and is another blog post to come. It involves cool things and bike love too, so worth waiting for in my opinion! :)
"I might not even get a handmade t-shirt this year, harumph!" Indeed! Although at least that shows he greatly appreciates the handmade t-shirts. I took Joe shopping for our vacation and suggested some tee and tanks and he said "but I like the ones you make for me best." Well, (1) I do not have time to make you tank tops before we leave on our cruise tomorrow; but (2) you get major brownie points anyway. <3
ReplyDeleteYou're too kind, I thought of his "not even a T-shirt" 'comment as being more along the lines of "not even a kick in the pants". Anyway he likes his jumper and you totally could have made tank tops the night before a holiday but you're smart enough to know that, and to know you didn't need to!
DeleteWell done P on getting your birthday t-shirt as this looks brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sharon. He is all sorted for jumpers now, which is good cause all his pants are too small or have holes in the knees!
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