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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Ready for work, my Lola sweater

I've been wanting to make a Lola sweater for a while now, since I needed a nice and warm sweater (with short sleeves) to wear under my white coat at work.  I had major procrastination issues going on,  but when I saw the Lola on Mad Mims blog I knew I had to get started so I could wear mine asap. 
The fabric I used is a very soft-non-stretch fleece, which gave me some issues when I attached the neck ribbing (using self fabric) since there is nooo stretch at all. It stood up straight, which I liked as a 'design' feature, but it wasn't strong/stable enough to look good.
My strange stand up 'design' feature
I wanted to remove the whole piece and replace it with some other ribbing, but since I had stitched, overlocked and then stitched it down I really didn't want to take out all those stitches.. In the end I just folded the neck part over and stitched it down, which makes it smaller and nice and sturdy, but still cool enough as a design feature.


Nicely folded over
I measured my back length to determine how long I wanted it to be and then measured the pattern pieces and folded them where they should end. For the pockets I traced the side piece and then just cut the top part off.

At first I serged everything together, but the seams were a bit too loose, so you could see the stitches. So I stitched just a couple of mm inside from the overlock seams and even though I couldn't press the seams nice and open I'm still happy with the result.
 I'm really happy with my sweater, not my best work ever, but super wearable and really comfy under my white coat. No more need to roll up my sleeves when things get dirty! (which they always do, every day..)

 The weather has been super rainy and gloomy here, we are really hoping for some snow, Shane would love to play in the snow and she really hates rain...
Waiting for snow..

16 comments:

  1. Nice! I love my Lola! It's a great pattern.

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  2. What a brilliant idea. I love the color!

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  3. So cute! Just got this pattern and can't wait to make it! :)

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  4. This is so cute! Love it in the shorter length. Poor Shane- hope she gets some snow soon! :)

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  5. So nice! Love the sleeve length! :)

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  6. Looks really nice! I love the pockets, the originals are a bit too wide for my taste... Hope you get a bit of snow soon!

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  7. Thanks Rachel! Your Lola is very cute indeed, the neck binding looks super good!

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  8. Thanks! Can't wait to see what you make from this pattern, since I love the things you make, your Rigel bomber is awesome!

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  9. Thanks Sonja! I'm afraid Shane might be disappointed this year, since it's about 50 F over here..

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  10. Yeah I was thinking that the original pocket placement might not be the most flattering for my hips.. I keep thinking about this Project Runway episode where they made pockets on the hips to carry thing around and the judges were like: why would you want to carry extra things on your hips??? :D

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  11. Oh wow, I love this cropped as a sweater - and 3/4 sleeves are my favourite, otherwise I bunch them up anyway :)

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  12. Yeah, that's what I was doing too! And it's not really comfy a lot of bunching underneath another jacket..

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  13. Cute Lola! That colour is great on you and it looks quite comfy. Maybe we can just have some snow days and then head straight to spring? :o)

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