Mod Style Sweater Dress

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  Step 1

  Start out with your materials.

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  Step 2

  It's easiest to put the sweatshirt on and then mark where it fits you. Don't make it fit too perfectly! Lay it out flat and smooth out the lines.

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  Step 3

  Cut away a little below your line. Remember it's easiest to cut away small bits at a time than to cut away too much quickly! Turn it inside out and pin the edges.

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  Step 4

  Cut off the sleeves, turn them inside out and mark where it will loosely fit you. Pin at the line and cut away excess. You will also cut off the sweatshirt cuffs.

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  Step 5

  Do the same for the opposite sleeve.

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  Step 6

  Now for one of the more challenges, you will attach the sleeve to your sweatshirts body.

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  Step 7

  Sewing it all can be aggravating. Be calm. Mistakes can happen. I made a mistake here by removing a pin too early. Use the seam ripper to gently break the threads and do it again. C.S Lewis said that failures are finger posts on the road to achievement after all.

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  Step 8

  Now this is what you should have. Just a smaller sweatshirt that is hopefully longer than mine (I could not find one longer in length)

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  Step 9

  Separate the sleeves, neckline and cuffs from the white shirt.

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  Step 10

  Lay the front of the white shirt on top of the sweatshirt front. Tuck the white shirt a little behind the sweatshirts neck collar. Pin in place.

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  Step 11

  The easiest way to make the collar is to draw a line about two to three inches down the front center of the shirt. Then curve around to the shoulders.

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  Step 12

  Cut along the lines and then pin.

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  Step 13

  Do the same thing in step 10 for this. Pin in place!

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  Step 14

  Now go back to the sleeves of the white shirt. Cut about three to four inches after the wrist line. Then tuck and pin around the gray sweatshirts sleeves. Pin in place.

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  Step 15

  Do the same for the second sleeve. Make sure that they match up. Then run under the sewing machine.

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  Now just for the collar, you can sew the gray sweatshirt and the tucked under white shirt together so that the top will not show any sewing lines.

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Shelynn T. · 12 projects 8th May 2014

This is super adorable!

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