UCLA Sweatshirt Shrink

Omari needed some college attire for Spirit Day at her school. This was the ONLY thing I had. Nothing from undergrad and I'd recently gotten rid of a grad school t-shirt. I used an Ottobre pattern from the recent 1/09 issue. It doesn't look like the pattern bc it was long sleeved and a soft jersey was used. I had to make 3/4 length sleeves bc of the holes and I liked it better this way, but she said they were too tight when she tried it on that morning. So I ran back to the machine to make them short.


Here's what the sweatshirt looked like on me. This was and OLD sweatshirt that I kept from a boy I was dating in college. Not at UCLA. It was tattered almost to bits as you can see. The fabric was actually quite fragile and at one point tore it where I was sewing on the FOE (fold over elastic). GRRRR.




Omari LOVED the sweatshirt top. It was washed the next day and she wore it again. She was actually verbally attacked at school bc her school is right next door to USC and so most of the kids are loyal to it. I thought my girlfriend's kids would certainly be wearing UCLA attire as they are big fans, but instead they wore Chinese garments in celebration of the new year. No Worries, all attacks were quickly put to an end by school staff.