Hey everyone, it's me Wendy.
And today, I'll be showing you how to make this
Oversized TurtleNeck Sweater
The thing about turtleneck sweaters is that they're usually...
knitted together, and not sewn together.
But! Knitting does take a bit more time and patience
so I wanted to try and see if there was a way to make a turtleneck
without the knitting part.
I recently found this fabric
which was a super thick like, sweater knitted material
You can see all the "v" designs in the knitting.
I got 2 yards of it, hoping to make a turtleneck.
After the tutorial, I'll show you in much better lighting how the whole thing turned out.
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For this turtleneck, I started with 2 yards of sweater knit material
And I cut out a front and a back that were identical to each other.
As well as 2 sleeves that were identical to each other.
For the front and the back, I traced an existing sweater that I owned
and left a ½ inch seam allowance all the way around.
You can always cut it to be extra long and then shorten it later as you need.
And for the turtleneck, you can always start out making it as wide as you like
and as long as you like
and then shaving it down as you go
to see how it fits.
Width and the height of the turtleneck really depend on the thickness of the knit
and so you'll want to be generous in the beginning
and scale it back as you go.
The sleeves you can also make as long as you need.
Main key is that at the top you wanna include a little bit of an "S" curve shape
and with over-sized turtlenecks I noticed a lot of them have a drop-shoulder.
So if you can trace from a drop-shoulder sweater instead of a fitted-shoulder
that would be even better.
The very first step will be to bring the front and the back right sides together
and sew them with a zigzag stitch all along the curve that goes from the shoulder to the top of the turtleneck
Once that was all sewn up, I actually flipped the turtleneck over and gave it a try.
I decided I want the turtleneck to be much taller
and so I made those modifications and you can see the difference here.
Once you're happy with how the turtleneck part fits
You can flip open the front and the back to be looking at the shoulder from above
We're going to fold a sleeve in half
line that fold along the shoulder point
and then pin the sleeve to the armhole going down the front and going down the back.
When I flip it to the other side, here's how it looks from the right side out.
We've got the sleeve attached to the shoulder hole
and we're just gonna sew that together with a zigzag stitch.
Once the sleeve has been attached to the shoulders
the next step is to bring the armpits' right sides together
and then sew down the side of the body and down the entire sleeve.
All of these I used a zigzag stitch just because the knit is very stretchy
and I didn't want to hold it down with a straight stitch.
At this point, I wanted to finish off the neck hole
the two sleeves and the bottom of the turtleneck
I went ahead and used my widest zigzag stitch possible
and sealed off all the raw edges first.
Then, with the neck hole and with the two sleeves
I folded the fabric to the inside and hand stitch that raw edge to the inside layer of the sweater.
This is how I got the really plush edge on the sleeves and on the top of the turtleneck.
I actually did this to the bottom of the turtleneck which is what is shown here.
But I decided in the end that I didn't like that plush look on the bottom.
And so I left the bottom just sitting as is with the zigzag.
To be honest, still feel a bit on the fence on how the bottom turned out.
But until I find a better solution the zigzag along the bottom has been good enough for me.
Here's another close up of the hand sewing process.
I grab a little bit of the raw edge with the needle
and then I also grab a little bit of the yarn on the inside of the sweater with the needle
and pull it through over and over until I get back to where I started.
And here's how it looked in the end.
That's a wrap on this Super Oversized Turtleneck Sweater
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