We received adorable sweatshirts as a Christmas present, but the sweatshirts didn’t fit great. Ryan looked like he was wearing an oversized halter top with ¾-length arms, and I looked like I was wearing a too-small dress. Obviously, I needed to save the design and put it on something we could wear! Here’s what I did.
Fabric & Pattern(s)
I used our standard t-shirt pattern and tested fit in a cheap fleece first. Our new sweatshirts were made from organic cotton sweatshirting and organic cotton rib from the Fabric Store.
The key was to use a fabric similar in weight and stretch to the screen-printed design. The screen-printed design was on an 8 oz, 50/50 cotton/poly sweatshirt fabric. The organic cotton sweatshirt is 9 oz, 100% organic cotton. I didn’t want to use bamboo or anything with spandex because that would be too different.
Another option for fabric could have been Birch Organic fabrics sweatshirt fleece because it is also 9 oz and 100% organic cotton.
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