Hey, everyone. It's me, Wendy and today I'm gonna be showing you how to make a hoodie
I know It's kind of dark to see I'll show you obviously in better light later, but my hoodie is zipperless
There's strings in the front coming out of the hood and like all good hoodies. There's the front...
pocket. Like that.
The hand warming pocket, you know?
out of all these things though the coolest thing about this hoodie
Is that it's made from one hundred percent recycled
materials so this used to be
plastic bottles. A company called thread reached out to me and sent me a bunch of samples of different fabric that they made using their
recycling plastic into fabric program. Reducing waste recycling materials these are all things I stand by and
Then when I felt the fleece I was like wow, it's so like it's so soft
I got you guys a
discount code for this
So if you want to use With Wendy when you check out you get ten percent off
And I'll put a link down below for you. I was seeing a lot more hoodies lately especially
That mom has like a whole bunch of hoodies coming out with all sorts of cool graphic design seen on Kanye on Rihanna
ETC taking inspiration from that I did make my hoodie with extra long sleeves their bundle of Napa look
stick around if you want to see how I plan on adding a design and
Stick around I'm like do you guys see how halloweeny my nails are halloweeny after this tutorial
I'm going to talk about adding a design and I'm going to talk about my halloween diys if you're new here
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I had requested two yards of fleece from thread and they sent me a little bit extra
But two yards will totally be enough for you to make a hoodie
then I grabbed the sweater that I really like and use that as a
template to trace out all the pieces. I need for this hoodie this first piece. That's shown here is the back of the hoodie
It's got a shallow neckline and the bottom curves downwards because I wanted it to be lower in the back
And then this piece is shown here is the front of the hoodie
It's got a deeper neckline and the bottom curves upward
Towards the middle because the hoodie is going to be higher up in the front all of this was copied from my sweater
So whatever sweater you own that you love the fit of, trace around it leaving you know a half inch for steam allowance
And you'll be pretty happy with the results, so I followed the sleeve shape up at the top where it joins the shoulder
but then I
lengthened It like
Crazy because I wanted it to be super long in the vetement style, if you want duplicate the vetement style
You should also pick a drop shoulder sweater to copy because their hoodies tend to be drop shoulder this one
Here is the front pocket
it's kind of like a
Trapezoid sitting on top of a
Rectangle and then the other piece to cut from the fleece is the hood I cut out four layers in
total of this shape
I made this using the shape of one of my existing hoodies
So that was the most helpful way to make sure it was the right size
It's got a rounded back
straight down in the front and then along the bottom a bit of an
S-Curve going on
First up with the front and the back right sides together and then sewed them with a straight stitch along the two shoulders
Next you'll want to open it up and attach it right sides together to the two sleeves, so I
Pin the sleeve all along the armhole on both sides here's how it looks on the outside
And then once you flip the sleep over there's how it looks on the wrong side
I did a straight stitch all along that curved edge and that helped to attach the two sleeves to the side of the hoodie
Next up we have the pocket
So the way this pocket works is along the two sloped lines that form the sides of the trapezoid
I folded those in 1-inch and pinned it down completely then along the top edge and two side short edges I
Folded it in about a half inch and pin that down
We're going to start with two rows of stitches along the sloped edges
And then add one skinny stitch along the two little sides and the top the bottom one you can leave completely
Open because once we attach the waistband on this hoodie. It's going to get hidden away anyways, here's the pocket when I was done
I tapered in the two bottom edges a little to look more like the vetement style
And then I'll flip it over and give you a close up of all the stitches
I've got two parallel stitches going down the sloped ends of the trapezoid and then that skinny stitch along the
top and two side edges
I lay this down onto the front bottom of the hoodie and pin it down
Along the two little short edges and the top edge just a little straight stitch on those two side edges and then the top edge
And this is now attached to your hoodie
I split up those four pieces of the hoodie material to make two pairs and put them right sides together
We're going to sew them along the curved edge once that was done
I opened them up and brought them right sides together, so that one could be the
Outside of the hood and one could be the inside of the hood I pinned these two together
Along the front edge of the hood all the way along the curve, and then sewed it together with a straight stitch
Here's how that straight stitch looked and now it's ready to be flipped so that it's right side on the outside
And you've got an outer shell and aligning for your head
I added another straight stitch along that entire edge about one inch away from it and that's going to create a spot for us to
Insert the string to tighten the hoodie
we're going to attach the head to the sweater to turn it into a hoodie and I did this by pinning the hoodie to the
sweater so that the outer layer of the sweater is touching the outer layer of the hoodie
I start at the back middle
And then move my way down the two sides of the neck hole at the front there was a little bit of an overlap
Based on my research on how the vetement hoodies looked they had to overlap too, so I followed that
It's just about a one inch of overlap and on the inside
We're going to sell all these layers together with a straight stitch
I started at the part where the hoodie
overlaps so first I sewed down one edge went all the way around and by the time I came back the other edge
I just sewed it right on top and that fixed everything into place to seal off the sleeves and the side of the Hoodie I
Bring the armpits right sides together and then slowed down the body and down the sleeve away from the armpit with some black ribbed knit
what I did is I cut out a strip that was five inches tall and then just wide enough to reach the width of the
whole sweater if I gave it some stretch
We're going to flip that so that it's right sides together and then sew down the two raw edges with a straight stitch to seal
It off into a tube for the waistband and the cuffs is the exact same thing so once it's sewed off into a tube
Open up those two raw edges
fold it in half and then
flip the rest of the fabric around so that now it's folded in half and ready to be attached as a cuff or
Waistband all of these pieces should be a little bit narrower than the part of the hoodie that you [them], too
But you don't want to make it too narrow so for example with the cuffs
I always like to test that they fit comfortably around my wrist
But can also slide up to my elbows with the waistband and the cuffs what you do is you slide the completed loop
Over the sleeve or over the bottom of the hoodie that you're attaching it to
line up those two seam Edges
And then pin all the way around I like to start where the steam is then pin on the opposite side and then pin in
between and that helps to make sure that the pins are at an even distance all the way around here
it's better to use a zig-zag stitch when you're going around the cuffs and the waistband are areas that get a lot of
stress and tension and the Zig-zag stitch can help Flex with that lastly I picked up one and a half yards of
shoelace like
material and we're going to thread that into the hood to do this I cut out two little slits on the hood then take this
string fold it in half and stick it through a safety pin and
the firmness of the safety pin will make it easy for us to thread it through so I insert the safety pin in one of
the slits that I cut and then you just keep
Scrunching and pulling scrunching and pulling your way through the entire hood and eventually it'll hopefully
Come out the other side that is the last step to make this hoodie. So now you get to see how it turned out
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I'm going to move on to talking about adding designs and
My Halloween stuff
So this is your last chance, okay?
For adding designs to this hoodie when really easy way is to use fabric paint these two girls that I follow on YouTube who also do sewing tutorials
Killed it so I'm going to link you to their video below its
Q2 han hopefully heard of them before if you want to see how it's done
Click click Click click click tell them I sent you and secondly it's Halloween time
and I partnered up with CBC life if you don't live in Canada CBC is like our biggest national broadcasting company
I made for them three dollar store Halloween costume, so the challenge was I could only use dollar store supplies
I put together miss universe themed costume Judy Hopps from Zootopia and the last one was a
Beyonce Style made of tissue paper from her hold up music video the video is now live
So I'll put a link down below for you. I worked really hard on it. I hope you guys like it
I've left you with quite a few links make sure you check the description and that will be it for today
See you all next time.
Happy Halloween, bye!
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