Llovely Llamas

Today my latest blog post for Minerva Crafts goes live.  I chose to make up an old favourite, the Grainline Linden sweatshirt. And, quite unusually, I messed up!

The finished project is fine; it’s just not what I intended.

I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I get very frustrated about fabric requirements on patterns being far in excess of what you actually need if you’re prepared to put in a little more effort than just folding the fabric in half down the middle and plonking the pattern pieces down. I relish a bit of pattern tetris and so, when I saw this llama jersey and wanted to make up a sweatshirt in it, I ordered a mere metre.

People, this is not the right approach when working with a directional print!

I tried about 5 different sweatshirt patterns (yes, I do love a cosy jumper, why do you ask?) and there was no way that I could get the fabric to fit.

So I fell back on the sewist’s friend, colour blocking.  I had some grey sweatshirting left from making my husband some joggers for Christmas; together with the matching ribbing, I managed to cobble together a fairly wearable sweatshirt.

Full details of the make are on the Minerva blog here.

And remember; sometimes you don’t know better than the pattern!

Becca

Details:

Pattern:  Grainline Studios Linden sweatshirt

Fabric: llama jersey from Minerva Crafts; fleece backed sweatshirting and matching ribbing from B&M Fabrics

My Measurements:

Bust 36″

Waist 31″

Hips 42″

Size cut / adjustments

Grade between a size 6 and a size 8

Future adjustments

Possibly widen the neckband; I find it quite narrow as is

Make again?

Oh probably, I can just about make this with my eyes closed at this point!