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Sweatshirt 4011

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Name	Sweatshirt 4011
Status	finished
Happiness
Started	Dec 30, 2014
Completed	Jan 3, 2015
Progress	100 %
Privacy	public
Notes	I really enjoy the finished product, this is perhaps the most meticulously sewn item I've done, very happy with it. I'm not too thrilled with the directions. They seem unnecessarily wordy in step 6. This caused much confusion for me that it took a day of walking away to realize what it was trying to tell me. The instructions at this step says things like place the zipper teeth so that it faces the the side seam, they could simply say the zipper should be placed wrong side to right side of fabric. I know these directions are coming from another language but they tend to create a lot of confusion with how sentences are worded. I also would have liked clearer instructions on inserting the bias tape on the pockets. If I have anything I dislike on my finished sweatshirt its the bias tape on the pockets. Maybe the imperfections could have been avoided had I used a lightweight fabric for my bias on the pocket. I had a ridiculously hard time since i used the same sweatshirt fabric used for the entire sweater and it became too thick to sew on my machine. This created some issues later on when attaching the lower band which was made too small for me so I had to redraft the pattern adding 2 inches to it.