...well...it's been a while since you've seen this 'project'...the hoodie was a 'favorite' when Mom gave it to me...and then I got some sort of a stain on the front...and I posted about
trying to 'fix' it way back in February...
...so this is what it looked like the last time you saw it...I had painted over the spots with white fabric paint...and I had pronounced that 'fix' a big ol'
FAIL...
...but it's been sitting there in my workbasket all those months...and every Wednesday I'd see it there...so I finally decided to try something else...it's just getting cool enough to need an extra layer for riding my bike...and this is just the perfect weight for that...
...so I got it back out...and a couple of the Man's old white t-shirts...the fabric of the hoodie is pretty much T-shirt material...
...I ironed everything so it would lay nice and flat...the stains are all on the lower front part of some sort of diamond shaped front panels...
...matched up the 'whiteness' as best I could...
...and I just pinned roughly cut strips of t-shirt over the front panel of the hoodie...
...and then I just zig-zag stitched around that one front panel on each side of the zipper where the stains were...
...just following over the top of the existing sort of diagonal seams...just that one panel...
...and then I trimmed off the excess fabric as close to the stitching as possible...
...and I could have just left it like that...it looks pretty good...
...but the zig-zag stitch doesn't really match the other sort of overlocked stitch on the rest of the panels...
...so I went back over the zig-zag stitching with another special overlock stitch on my machine...it took a long time as the needle goes back and forth a lot of times to move forward a little bit...but I'm really happy with the way it turned out...and the double thickness on the front panels will actually be pretty nice as I ride through the cool fall air...
...and a close up of the overlock stitch...it makes it a lot neater looking...
~Have a lovely day!
That's a very nice fix. I don't think I've ever used that stitch on my machine. Love, K
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