Quilted Sweateshirt

 Hello Readers. Free promotional shirts are so common at thrift stores, we all get them from festivals and events.They get donated often. They are usually covered with advertising and they are not very cute. Let's make this promotional sweatshirt as cute as can be. 

 Before and after some simple alterations.  

 This sweatshirt was boring and blah. I can change that though. I have some scrap pieces of a quilt. I want to use some of this quilt to decorate this sweatshirt and make it special. (This is a modern quilt made in a factory, it was not made by my grandmother or yours. It's not antique or vintage. Please do not get upset about cutting up this quilt. It's OK. I have 2 quilts made by my great grandmother and I solemnly swear to never cut them.) 

 I measured the area that I wanted to cover. This shirt has printing on the front and back. I want to cover both. I cut a square-ish rectangular shape to cover the printing. I don't want to see any of the writing peeking out around my quilt piece so i used the size of the writing as a guide for how big to make my quilt piece I made my quilt piece a bit larger than the printing I wanted to cover.  I un-picked the stitches of the front pocket. I saw there was a stain on my shirt at the waistband, that's OK. I just cut it off. The pocket came off with the bottom of the sweat shirt. It looks short right now but I will fix that later. 

I pinned the quilt piece in place over the printing with a lot of pins. I wanted the quilt piece to stay in place and not shift around at all while I was sewing. The pins will do this.

 I used a zigzag stitch on my sewing machine and stitched along the edge of the quilt piece. The stitches will cover the cut edge and make it look nice and neat as well as attach the quilt piece to the shirt. The light blue is a nice color with the quilt and the sweatshirt. 

 When I was done sewing the front and back pieces onto the sweat shirt. I got a long horizontal piece of the quilt. It had a really pretty scalloped edge and I wanted to sew it on the bottom of the sweat shirt. It would add the length that I had cut off and it would be a fun look. 

 My new sweat shirt was cute in front and back. I liked the new look. 

 I added some light blue ribbon through the hood casing because it didn't have any string in it. It was just for fun and added a touch of matching light blue to the hood. 

 

Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.