Checkerboard Sweatshirt

Sometimes you just need to put on some noise cancelling headphones, chop up some leftover french terry and sherpa remnants, and make something completely unnecessary. I spent the better part of the day cutting 5.75” wide strips out of these fabrics and then putting them back together with my serger.

I didn’t really use a pattern, just sort of made it up by referencing other sweatshirts and my quilted coat. The disadvantage to this approach is that it took a little more fiddling around to get a fit that I liked, for instance at first it was too oversized for my tasted and I ended up chopping off half of the bottom row so it wouldn’t be quite so long.

The key to piecing knits with a serger is to make sure you have your differential feeds set to something higher than 1, otherwise it’s hard to get smooth seams. I think for this project I had it set to a little over 1.5. Here’s a closeup of the fabric so you can get a sense for the texture.

The copper fabric is french terry leftover from this Citrine, so I also had a bit of matching rib for the waistband. The cream sherpa is so old I can’t remember what it was used for other than these Sherpa-pocketed pants for Elliot when he was 6, and the sleeves were a hemp french terry from simplifi, that I had used to make this baby outfit for Hugo. You have to know that half of the fun of writing these posts for me is digging up those old links.

Am quite pleased with the result. Super cosy sweatshirt for fall!