Victory!!!!
My Oldest Sisters, youngest so far, turned #3 last weekend, and despite it being the very hottest day of the year so far, and it being a 'Frozen' themed, out of doors, shin-dig, he got, from us a sweatshirt, in the hopes that it would be cold again someday........... I can honestly say that we all found out what happens to a snowman in summer, & nobody liked warm hugs!
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| Birthday boy & cutie-patootie friend |
Yes, I could have waited for a festive winter holiday, or maybe Hall-o-ween, or just whenever, but right now he is big into dinosaurs, and this project falls well into our Dave Ramsey Spend-No-Money budget program
CHEAP & EASY
The trick was finding our little hoodie in the middle of summer, when, really, who wants a sweatshirt? They were practically giving them away at our local children's resale boutique. Buying things so out of season makes them an absolute steal!
Materials Needed:
Hooded Sweatshirt in the appropriate size
1/4- 1/8 yard heavy fleece material in coordinating color/s
Thread, straight pins, scissors, chalk or marking pencil, & other notions as needed
sewing machine, optional
And, most importantly, the will to stick with it!
1. Firstly, lay our your sweatshirt and decide if you want your spiky scales on just the hood, or all the way down.
2. Lay out your fabric and eyeball a good scale size. The original called for making diamonds to fold in half for the scales, but that seemed far too challenging, so I went with squares- because if we remember way back to pre school, 2 triangles= 1 square. Cut squares....and just keep cutting them even if your project will only need about 6, this will leave you with a few back-ups just in case.
3. Pin squares to the shirt, right sides together (ugly side up), so when you fold your scales, the pretty side is out!
Use your chalk to mark the mid-line down the back for something to line the points up with.
Try to over-lap the points as you go, to make the sewing easier.
(Honestly, at this point I was like 10 minutes in, and everything was going super)
3. Sew Down the mid-line of your squares
(this great! This will be a super, 20 minute project. RIGHT ON!)
4. Now, fold up your squares, making the triangle-ly shaped, sticky-outy, scales, and pin. Some might not be exactly even, but you can always trim them later.
5. Prepare to say really bad words, repeatedly! I am not a sewer, I enjoy it, but my working knowledge of sewing things on my sewing machine is limited. I don't think I have changed the stitch length stuff since I got the machine so many, many years ago!
Because you will be sewing a double layer of thicker material, you may need to learn how to adjust your machine to accommodate the thickness, etc...... otherwise you will have a knotted mess of thread.
Because you will be sewing a double layer of thicker material, you may need to learn how to adjust your machine to accommodate the thickness, etc...... otherwise you will have a knotted mess of thread.
ps- a seam ripper is a handy thing to have handy.
6. Fold up your scales and beginning at the top, sew. as you need to turn at the points, leave your needle down, lift your presser foot, & turn your material (Thank you, Sewing with Nancy!!!), drop your presser foot and carry on. It's your choice if you keep going between scales or do them individually.
7. Hallelujah! 3 hours later you end up with something like this:
the fine print
I do not claim to have come up with this idea in any way, shape, or form.
I do not claim to be a sewer person, and if this didn't make complete sense, to bad, refer to the original post, or use your imagination.
This really shouldn't cost more than about $5, if it does you either did it wrong or you paid someone else to make it (cheater!).
In lieu of sewing, you could probably get away with using tacky fabric glue..........
I do promise, that the recipient of this project will most likely be pretty excited, unless they are old, don't like dinosaurs/dragons, or they are generally a grump & no fun.
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