Jack Frost Hoodie: Details

SUPPLIES:

Everything I bought from either Joann's Fabrics or Michael's craft stores. Sweater fabric was more expensive than I expected.

-White Sweater fabric
-White Knit
-2 Metal rivets
-String
-Elastic
-thread
-Navy Blue Rit dye
-Fabric Glue
-Silver Glitter
-Blue Glitter

Roughly $40 of materials. >.>

PATTERN:

I based the original pattern from my own sweaters that I wear around the house. The hoodie is longer so it will drape properly over my bum.

The chest has these "T" stitchings in them. To do that, I just marked them with pins and cut it, then sewed it back together. You can't see to well here, but I have it on the back too. Note: the two corners come a lot closer in the back. If you look at reference images of him, you'll see this.

The hood is one large piece. There is no seam at the top of the head, but there is in the rear.

The seam at the shoulder is very round. I had to adjust that several times to get the right curve. The shape of the sleeves is close at the top and puffs out a bit past the elbow. That's one unique thing about the whole silhouette I noticed.


DYE:

Navy Blue Rit Dye should do the trick. Just make sure your stitching isn't freaking polymer-mixed. It has to be cotton. I have to go back still and re-do the stupid hem. >_< I dyed this stupid sweater 3 freaking times. The first two times it came out blue, but way too light. I went back a third time and got navy blue. That did the trick. When you do this, make sure to wash out the fabric until the water runs clear! You don't want your skin to turn blue when you finally wear it. Oh wait. It's Jack Frost. He's already blue. lol


FROSTING:

Yes. Shut up. I call it frosting. Deal with it. Basically, it's glitter and glue. Lots and lots of it. I used "Aleene's Permanent Fabric Glue" in the tipped bottle and super tiny silver glitter. The frost patterns are ... strange. In some spots they look like feathers, like on the chest, but in other spots it looks like cat scratches, like on the sleeves. Just pay close attention to which pattern goes where according to references and you should be fine. Lastly, I added some blue glitter on the sleeves because in a few pictures I found, it looks blue... Weird.

Now I have to go outside and give it a good shake. SO MUCH GLITTER AAAAAAAHHH!!!