Vanellope Hoddie done!

I was finally able to go to the fabric store and found some cute knit with hearts on it. its slightly more green but I figure that’s okay. they had some without hearts but I liked the hearts better so its the one I ended up getting. the construction then went pretty quickly. actually the tiny piece I put in at the front of the hood to cover the stitching on the inside took the longest to put in. it was a piece not called for in the pattern but I wanted it to cover the stitching at the front of the hood. oh vanity can cause such frustrations. I used McCall's pattern #M6614 view D, with only a few minor changes. one being that the pattern is for a zippered front hoddie, and Vanelope’s is a pull over, so I cut the front piece on a fold rather then in two pieces. I also constructed the hood slightly different, since I needed button holes to put the string through and the pattern didn’t call for it. I did all the inside seams with just serging which works great on fleece and knits plus its what the manufactures do. it looked really good till I was trying to put the hood on and it wasn’t working. it was then I realized of course its not fitting, my serger stitch is only a quarter of an inch seam allowance and the pattern calls for five eighths seam allowance, so with four seams I had an extra inch and a half to work in plus the fact I needed to overlap the hood a half inch and the fact of it being cut on a fold not in two pieces added a bit too, so I am left trying to ease in a good three inches, and that just wasn’t happening. so I did some math and went back to the serger where I took off what I needed, and amazingly the hood fit easily after that. yeah that was poor planning on my part. its just one of those things I didn’t even think about till it wasn’t working then it was like oh yeah duh! I opted to go ahead and punch holes into the front with an awl for the red ribbon, since in the end I think it will look the best. so far I’m liking the way the costume is coming, I can only hope we have the perfect day to wear it when the time comes, not to hot, nor too cold, because around here one never knows what the end of October will bring.

the fabric I lined the hood with

the tiny piece that took forever to put in. and it really doesn’t look all that great, but it keeps the serging from showing, which is what I wanted