Phoenix Sweater by Fibre Mood

Recently I discovered a great pattern for boys: : The Phoenix Sweater. The pattern is part of a new sewing magazine that was recently launched on the German-speaking market: FIBRE MOOD. The editors are Isabelle and Teresa, the former authors of “La Maison Victor”. Fibre Mood organizes every second Wednesday of the month a link party where Fibre Mood creations can be linked.

The motto of today’s link party is “sleeves”. Since I didn’t really want to give my son a sweater with trumpet sleeves, I decorated the sleeves with a cool ribbon.

At the beginning of my sewing career I often appliquéd. As for example with this tiger jacket.  At that time the mistake would never have happened to me: I simply sewed the ribbon onto the sweatshirt fabric. With the consequence that I still had quite a lot of sleeves left at the end of the correctly measured ribbon. The knowledge that Sweat fabric expands when sewing must have fallen through the meshes of my brain.  Well, so I removed the ribbon again, put embroidery fleece under the sleeves in the second run and this time the plan worked out wonderfully. 

As another trendy addition I sewed cool striped cuffs. After I was so enthusiastic about my bomber jacket with those cuff’s, I had to sew some for my son. 

Certainly there will be more Phoenix sweaters in my son’s wardrobe this autumn. For the next one I plan to sew a piping into the shoulder seam.

Happy Sewing

• Pattern: Phoenix Sweater provided by Fibre Mood
• Fabric: Jersey Kimsa “Cactus”
• linked with: Fibre Mood, AfterWorkSewing, made for boys