This one is for my nephew, whose birthday was Friday. Kwik Sew 2918 in size 2T. Hope it fits!

Happy Birthday Parker!

13 is challenging. On the one hand, you want your mom to do stuff for you just like she does for your siblings. On the other hand, you’re 13 and you want to wear cool stuff. This generally means sewing for Alex is pajamas.

This is Kwik Sew 3045, size XS. Based on the pattern information, this should have been much bigger on him. It’s fine, but if I make him another one, I’ll probably go with a size small. This is view B, which was to have hemmed rather than cuffed sleeves and a drawstring at the bottom hem. The drawstring was deemed stupid, so I didn’t bother with it. Hoodies have cuffs on the sleeves, so I added a 2″ cuff. Adding the cuff was probably a good idea since it also made the sleeve length more comfortable.

Fabric is 100wt microfleece from Malden Mills/Polartec. Very nice material, probably the best microfleece out there. It’s actually a pretty dark navy color, the camera flash kind of pops the color. Definitely a good color for Alex, though. Check out the blue eyes on this boy.

This is the answer to the request from Zoe for something cute for picture day. While I thought she had plenty of “cute” things that would be lovely for picture day, she apparently felt differently. I would have appreciated her sharing this information sometime earlier than the day before picture day, but what fun would that be? This picture is about a week after picture day. I’m not sure if these were the tights she had on for picture day, and I’m pretty sure we picked up this pair of shoes after picture day. The shoes are hot pink shiny numbers from Target.

This is a standby pattern – Farbenmix Olivia. The hood is lined in the same color as the sleeves. The main fabric is a purpley-blue with pink and purple fairies all over it. Size 122/128.

Playing a bit of catch up here –
I did make this one again, adding length to the sleeves and body. It appears that I forgot to take a picture after I hemmed it, so you get this one where I was trying to decide if I would hate it unhemmed.

In case you’re wondering, it wasn’t an issue of my not wanting to hem it. It was a thread color issue. I didn’t have an acceptable match (in my eyes) in my collection of serger threads. After some digging, I did find a suitable match in my sewing machine threads. I popped the spool and bobbin on the two spots on the coverstitcher where I’d normally put serger thread cones and then went with the darkest purple woolly nylon I could find for the underside. Worked wonderfully. Perhaps one of these days I will remember to snap a picture after it goes through the wash. Right now I’m too lazy busy to go dig it out of the dresser drawer upstairs.