Kitschy Coo Superman Hoodie

I think there are so many cute sewing patterns out there for little girls. I know my son was beginning to feel a little left out. So when I saw this awesome pattern from Kitschy Coo Kids I just had to get it! She has a lot of awesome kids patterns in her shop, so I’m planning on getting some more of them soon. The thing I liked best about this sewing pattern is that you can combine a woven and a knit, which is what I did! This hoodie is totally reversible. My son was super-excited about the exterior fabric!

Fabric – I made the size 5T, which called for 1-1/2 yard of the interior and exterior fabrics, but I managed to cram all the pattern pieces onto 1 yard. The exterior fabric is a woven Spiderman, and the interior is red fleece that I got at Joann’s on Black Friday for $2.99. I also used a red ribbed fabric for the cuffs and the hem. A bright red zipper finishes it off.

Pattern Pieces – This sewing pattern comes as a .pdf, my favorite kind. The pattern pieces printed out on over 30 pages, which is okay with me because my printer is always set to fast print/gray scale. I had no problem assembling the 4 pattern pieces from what printed out. Everything cuts on the fold except for the hood.

Illustrations/Instructions –  This is a very easy pattern to follow. It’s written with a long enough explanation to understand what you have to do, and there are many pictures for each step.

I took my almost-finished hoodie (I just needed to finish the cuffs and install the zipper) to my grandmother’s house yesterday to show her what I was working on. She couldn’t figure out how the sleeves were going to finish up; since it’s reversible, there are no exposed seems. I told her I’d show her how I did it because she was stumped. I have to say, the design of how to get the sleeve cuffs to finish is GEN-IUS. Genius. I had to read over the instructions a couple times for that part, but it really was easy to do. Challenging to sew over the several layers, but the cuff was not hard.

I also wanted to note that when I cut my fabrics out initially, the designer had suggested since I was using a woven and the stretchy fleece, to either use a bigger seam allowance for the fleece or to cut it slightly smaller. I cut my fleece about 1/4″ down on all sides, which seemed to work in my case (although it’s not exactly a 4-way stretch, so next time I will probably pay attention to that when cutting down the sides).

This is a great, fun pattern to sew…the designer really knows her way around garment design and construction.

Conclusion – I can’t say enough good things about this sewing pattern. My son wants more hoodies (I found some Transformers fabric), and I guess I will make one for my daughter as well (even though she doesn’t wear the clothes I made her anymore). This was a 2-night project for me; I sew when my kids go to sleep, so about 9pm-12am. I had fun hammering it out. A very ambitious beginner could probably make this pattern, since besides the zipper it doesn’t require any special techniques, but I would say an intermediate sewer would be able to complete it no problem.

P.S. I link up my weekly finish every Friday on Amy Lou Who’s Sew and Tell Friday! Stop over and take a look at the other projects!