I made a sweater!!!!
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| Long slouchy sweaters are a 'thing' this year! I'll break a sampling down for you, from left to right above: Belfast Cardi, $198.00, Sundance - Realm Cardi, also $198.00 from Sundance - The CELESTE Coatigan (I kid you not!!!! Hee hee!) for $178.00, Boden - and the simply named, Cardigan, for $129.00 from Prana. |
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So....with that 'style factor', being 5' 9", and Rosie's wisdom to advise that I use as much of this delicious totally washable sweater knit from Mood as possible!!!!....
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| I made the simplest, longest version on the bottom left, above. |
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| I made size "medium", labeled as 12-14 since I wanted this to be a little on the larger size and I normally make a 10-12. And I think it turned out well with no modifications in that regard. The pattern actually nips in a bit at the waist, to give it some nice shape despite the easiness of the garment - something reviewers on Patternreview.com had commented on positively as well. |
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| The material, while soft and lovely, (2 yards of "Moonbeam slubbed cotton-rayon" from MOOD @ $14.00 per yard) was very stretchy due to its loose weave. I cut the pattern out one layer at a time and tried to move it as little as possible as it frayed like a booger!!! I serged all the seams, though I actually hemmed it on my regular sewing machine....after serging the bottom edge and hand hemmed the sleeves after same. I also hand tacked the open collar from the bottom of the sweater to about breast level on both sides as it was a little too 'flimpy' to stay in place on its own. |
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| The sleeves are full length, though I have shoved them up as usual!! |
It is soft and cozy and washes up very well!!! A truly Celestial Cardi for 28 bucks!!! Sew Chaotically! - c
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