Posted by Lori~
This is my final "live from the lake" post. I am actually sitting in my little city, ND living room writing this final post and remembering my week at the lake. GOOD TIMES!
This is actually a craft that I started on father's day and was supposed to be part of Steve's gift. However, my retro sewing machine just wasn't having it. Too many layers to sew! And so, I asked Crafty G-Ma to help me out with this project and she brought her "high-tech" machine to the lake. And it worked slick. SUPER EASY! WOMS--YOU NEED TO MAKE THESE TOO! ADORABLE!
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Mom sewing at the lake! |
As you know my husband rocks a dress shirt, blazer, and jeans. But he also has a fun side too! And so when I saw Dino sweatshirts…I knew Mur-Man needed one, but Steve needed one to match too. And yes, he will wear it! I KNOW IT!
All it takes is a hooded sweatshirt (which luckily I already had in Steve’s stash and Mur-Man’s stash) and a strip of fleece (long enough to go from the edge of the hood to the bottom of the sweatshirt at the waist). I ended up buying a remnant of fabric that cost me just under $3.50. Pretty THRIFTY!
To make the sweatshirt—first up create your pattern. I opted to do the spiked back tail and using a ruler made my parts equal. You will want to leave an inch at the bottom for sewing purposes.
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Mur-Man's dino pattern |
Fold your fleece in half and cut your pattern (make sure you have enough to span the sweatshirt).
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I opted to use orange fleece. |
Next up, cut your sweatshirt in half. I used pins to make sure the halves were equal.
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Two equal parts. |
In addition, Mur-Man’s sweatshirt had lining (my recommendation is to go with a non-lined sweatshirt…it gets really bulky), but to eliminate that problem…I simply cut the lining out.
Fold right sides together with your fleece placed in the center and sew.
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Ready to add the other side and sew! |
I found that the hardest part of this project was sewing the sweatshirt back together because of the thickness of the fabric and fleece. Make sure you have a good needle and a good machine!
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Those are Crafty G-Ma's hands...she had to step in and
sew the thick parts of the sweatshirt with her machine |
And so, Steve and Mur-Man finally got their matching sweatshirts! They even modeled them at the cabin! My two men ROCK THEIR SWEATSHIRTS!
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My models |
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The back view |
A-DOR-A-BLE! DINO-MITE!
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