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The Family of Makers love, love, love their hoodies! I have made many pullover hoodies over the past few years for both Sarah and Kai, but had yet to make a zip up hoodie! I finally decided to jump in and made not one, but two zip up hoodies for Kai!
I used the High Five Hoodie pattern from Peek-A-Boo Patterns. I liked that it has a large size range (3mo-12) and that it also included both lined and unlined options.
I really enjoyed this pattern! I found it quite easy to follow and the the separating zipper was not as intimidating as I first thought it to be, once I dove in.
The first hoodie I made from Alien Pizza fabric from Total Eclipse of the Stitch. I found the separating zipper from JoAnn fabrics. It wasn’t the exact size I needed, however the pattern does give instructions for shortening which were easy to follow. I lined the hood but did not line the body of the hoodie. I made a few little mistakes a long the way, but all in all it was not a real difficult sew.
The second hoodie was made from splatter Mickey fabric from Mini Me’s By TNT. The second one was definitely an easier sew as I knew what I was doing! This one is also unlined.
My local fabric stores have a very limited variety of separating zippers so I went in search of some more exciting colors and found a great set on Amazon. I loved that these are 30 inches long so they will be suitable for many sizes. I just cut them down for Kai’s small hoodie following the pattern instructions. The set includes six zippers – one each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple – and the colors are nice and bright and vivid. I see a lot more zip up hoodies in Kai’s future! Now to find a pattern for Sarah…
Kai has gotten so big! Wonderful hoodie. Best of luck to everyone next week.