Ka-Pow!!!!

If you read my last post and guessed from the scraps I was making a Robin from Batman Hoodie you were right!!!!!



I based this off the Robin played by Burt Ward. in the 1960’s television Batman. I love that batman. its the bestest.


I have know for a while that I wanted to make this but I had to come up with the design. which meant of course research and TV watching. I didn’t want it to be exactly like Robin’s shirt in the show for several reasons. one its a Hoodie so it needed to be long sleeve two the shirt in the show has rounded ends which won’t work on a hoodie. three the shirt has no zipper and hoodies need them. and the main thing is this is not a costume its a Hoodie!!!



I wear Hoodies a lot as it tends to be cool in the mornings and get hot during the day so I like something that can slipped on and off. without making my hair a static mess. hence the need for a zipper. I made this out of regular T-shirt fabric so its not too hot to wear in the spring/ summer months.



I used McCall's pattern #M6614 for the Hoodie since I had it already. and for fabric I actually bought two extra large T-shirts because they had enough fabric and were on sale. I did have to completely disassemble them before I cut them but it saved me quite a bit of money to do it this way. I did have to buy the Green in yardage though because of sleeves taking up a lot of fabric. the black is scrap from a hemmed skirt.
I did the hood in Yellow because I actually very rarely wear the hood . this way it hangs down like a cape, and Robin’s cape is yellow. though I do think it still looks good when it is up.



putting it together was pretty simple but very time consuming. I had to keep trading thread colors every ten minutes because of the order of putting it together. nothing could be okay all red, now all green, now all yellow, nope it was sew a it in red, okay now green, okay back to red. it was very much back and forth, back and forth. I did enjoy though being able to use a real cover lock on this. it made putting the black on so much easier plus kept the stretch and just looks so nice because it doesn‘t wop thing out of shape. I will say I wish I had one of these, but alas I will have to settle for borrowing a friends. I also used it to make the belt loops. four for the belt and eighteen to look like the looping on the front. those were fun to line up! actually I was surprised at how easily they did line up when I installed the zipper. I was very careful with my measuring when I put them on but still I was worried about them stretching this way and that as I sewed in the zipper. but they didn’t so that was a happy dance in my head!



Making the R patch turned out not to be as easy as I thought it would be. I thought for sure I could go to a craft store and find a yellow R in the letter appliqué section. Wrong! I mean I could if I wanted the R to be only an inch tall. but I needed it to be bigger. I even looked to order something online. and found lots of letters in lots of different sizes and colors, but not big and Yellow. in the end I thought well I will just try to make my own, if it doesn’t work I can see if I can get someone to make me an Embroidered one. but the one I made turned out, I was so happy! all I did was make a pattern of an R, cut it out sewed it onto stiff interfacing, I think I did two layers of it so it would be thick enough. then made me a black circle the same way and just zig zaged around everything to make a nice patch. which I then sewed on to the hoodie.



I do have to say that the most challenging part of this whole project was lining up the belt. because it goes into the pocket yet stays on top of the pocket as well. it took some careful figuring to get that just right, not lose any of the pocket, nor have the yellow loops be on top of it. I had chalk marks all over the place. man I love Tailors chalk its one of the best things out there. I am so happy with the way this turned out, and can not wait to wear it all the time!!!!

projects

at the moment I am working on three different projects, though two have been somewhat put on hold for the time being.
one is of course the black bow dress, which I have nearly finished the overlay part, I guess its really an overlay dress with a skirt underneath. all I need on the overlay is the ruffles on the sleeves and I may put a ruffle on the neck as it is a bit wider then I had hoped for. its not outrageous though so I haven't decided if I will do the neck ruffle or not.

the second one is a hoodie.



can you guess by the scraps what is based on? I can’t wait till I finish this one. I will wear it all the time.
I’m making it out of t-shirt fabric so its nice and light. I like hoodies because they are easy on easy off, but I don't have any light weight ones so I decided to make one. all I have left is the zipper, however because of my third project I can not get to my sewing machine! its piled high with stuff. I will unearth it, but it may take me a while.

the third project is a complete reorganization of my sewing room, which is also my bedroom. I will post more about that when I finish it, but I am loving the way my stash is turning out. its just taking longer to organize then I anticipated. I keep trying to remind myself this is a really busy time of year for me, things take longer then normal. but still I want it done.