Made a less shitty layering top! Cowl that can be worn either down as a shawl, or up as a hood. Reve
Made a less shitty layering top! Cowl that can be worn either down as a shawl, or up as a hood. Reverse guessgineered from various clothes I saw and liked at Burning Man, although let’s be real I’ve always been into clothes that emulate the feeling of being wrapped in blankets while also looking like a functionally impractical videogame assassin, so this is really just another sewing mashup of my lifelong dreams, like my nested manta ray.Dimensions determined by the shape I wanted it to have in shawl mode, via a great deal of incremental pinning and trying on. Construction was deceptively simple: one seam down the back, then armholes. (You will almost definitely want to adjust the body measurements if you make your own: I’m about a 28B and 4′10″ tall.)I’m alpha testing now and it’s way more comfortable than the last shirt I made. I originally put all of the hood increase on the back side (as opposed to making it symmetric) out of pure laziness so that I would only have to sew one seam, but this turned out to be a happy accident since it helps it stay up better than other cowl-hoods which often have too much fabric under the chin and no contour to stay on your head with.My only disappointment is that it’s a bit unwieldy in cowl mode, which is perhaps unavoidable since I need these particular dimensions to allow it to be used as a shawl. The pointy bit of the hood looks funny in shawl mode but I can fix that pretty easily by rounding off the corner. -- source link
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