DIY: Cardigan

Hey my wonderful readers!

It's time to learn how to sew yourself a cardigan.

Materials:

• Knit Fabric
• Sewing machine
• Thread
• A pair of scissors
• Buttons (Optional)
• Paper (For making pattern)

 1. Making the pattern

Using your favourite cardigan or sweater, trace out the front, back and sleeve pattern on pieces of paper.

If your cardigan has a hoodie, you might want to trace it out.

 

2. Cutting the fabric

Once your patterns are ready, use the scissors to cut out the pattern with an additional 0.5-1" allowances around the edges.

3. Assembling the pieces

*ensure that the right-right sides are facing each other before sewing

*working with knit fabric without a serger or overlock machine may requires you to use zigzag stitching

Firstly, pin and sew the shoulder pieces together.

Secondly, pin and sew the sleeves to the respective armhole.

Thirdly, pin the raw edges of the sleeves and the side seam. Once you're done pinning, you can sew the sleeve and the side.

+This applies to those who have/like to have a hoodie+ 

Lastly, pin and sew the hoodie to the collar area and close the hoodie by sewing the top part.

4. Finishing touches

Cut out a long strip of fabric with a width of 2" with the length of raw edges. This strip acts as a bias tape hence sew it around the raw edges of the cardigan.

You may add buttons and button holes to the bias tape. Also, you may like to have small pockets at the front of the cardigan which will make it extra cute.

So how did my cardigan turn out?

I will be redoing the bias tape because the length was too short which caused my cardigan to curl.

Hence it is important that your bias tape is long enough to prevent curling. Other than that, I am satisfied with the end result. Once my bias tape is redone, I will be adding buttons to it! HEHE.

Also, I will upload a new photo soon with a better output!

This smock dress is by far the best thing I've ever sew! *Dances*

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DIY-01

Hello!

 It's finally my first post for the year, Hip hip Hooray!

I just finished my first DIY for the year.
I made very own sweater! HEHE.

Materials:

 2m fabric

Thread

 Sewing machine

I find sewing really simple and easy to do when you know how to create your own pattern. For myself, I use a similar clothing to trace out the pattern. In this DIY, I am using an oversized crop top which I am very much in love with. :)

 

With a sample clothing as a guideline for pattern-making, you can easily alter the length and width of the clothing you are making. Since I am using a crop top to make a sweater, I ensure that the pattern I trace out is longer than the sample clothing.

First and foremost, to trace out pattern you need to fold the clothes into half.

A simple sweater requires three important parts- FRONT, BACK & SLEEVE

FRONT

 BACK

SLEEVE

Do not forget to add in the fold direction. This is absolutely important or else you might forget to fold your fabric before cutting them!

 FRONT

BACK

SLEEVE

Yay! So we are done cutting the fabric. Now it's time to assemble these three together and you'll get yourself a sweater.

When ever it comes to sewing a top, the shoulder will be the first to sew.

 right-right side which means the wrong side of the fabric will be on the outside.

pin the FRONT and BACK together

You can start sewing the shoulder.

 Next, pin the sleeve to the armhole.

 Always remember to pin your fabric together this is to keep them on the right track when you sew them.

Once the sleeve is sewn on, pin the sides of the bodice and bottom of the sleeve.

 Then head to the sewing machine and press the foot pedal!

After assembling the three parts together, I decided to add bias tape to the neckline and cuff on the wrist area.

Oops, I forgot to take pictures of the bias tape! What I did to make the bias tape was I measured the neckline of the sweater.

My measurement for the bias tape was 23" by 1.5" 

I cut out the fabric with an additional 0.5".

Pin the right-right side together and sew them. Afterwards, fold the ends of the bias tape and sew.

Next, I did the cuff. 

The measurement was 10" by 3".

After cutting the fabric, fold the fabric into half (right-right side) and sew the ends.

Before attaching the cuff to the wrist area, turn the cuff inside-out. 

Once the right side is out, pin the cuff to the wrist area and sew.

Lastly, I did a rolled hem at the bottom for a clean finish!

So how did my sweater look?

 Rolled hem~

 Bias tape~

 Cuff~

Sweater~ 

WEE~ Isn't it easy? HEHE! So how much fabric did I use? I only used about 1m out of the 2m ( I am a petite size lady. HAHAHA! )

I still have plenty of fabric left, A-line skirt will be the next DIY of 2016!

That's all for this post. I hope you enjoyed reading my blog. Also, I created a youtube account with my dearest friend. We called ourselves, 2misfitchers. Please check out our channel~

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Till then <3