LEATHER IS TRENDING PART 4

Whether it's short sleeves, long sleeves or even hoodies, leather is still trending. These two are available from Urban Outfitters.

$54

$64

Revolve Clothing offers this girl's version for $138. Are they crazy?!

Since, I already made my son three shirts, why not try to make him a sweatshirt this time.

Materials:

Old dance routine outfit 

Sweatshirt from Unique

I cut the legs off of the jumpsuit and the sleeves off the sweatshirt.

Turned everything inside out and pinned each sleeve onto the sweatshirt.

After sewing one side and messing up and then getting it right on the other sleeve; here's the result. 

see the pucker on the sleeve

It looks a little plain though, so I decided to add the cuffs. I used a seam ripper and removed the cuffs.

I sewed on the cuffs and re-did the sleeve.

So, my son came home from college to watch the Superbowl, and guess what, he got bigger since Christmas. He tried on the sweatshirt and it was too tight in the torso. I asked him, "What have you been doing?" He said, "eating and lifting weights."

 @aldwon_

LEATHER IS TRENDING PART 3

Leather will always be trending. I've made two faux leather shirts for my son, here and here, this time, I'm gonna make one using real leather.

I went to Walmart and bought a boys size 2XL Hanes sweatshirt. Since this is for my son and he prefers a slimmer fit, a mens sweatshirt would have been too bulky. And once again, I'm gonna use my old leather coat.

All I need is the back panel of the coat, so I cut off the surrounding material.

I cut the bottom off, because it was too long.  Used a ruler to center the leather panel. And traced the panel on the front of the sweatshirt and then cut it out.

Next, I turned the sweatshirt inside out and pinned it on the sweatshirt. 

After constantly sticking myself with the pins and about an hour of sewing, here is the finished product.

Here's my son rockin' it.

I love how he's not afraid to wear my creations!

LEATHER IS TRENDING PART 2

Leather is still trending. Three of the biggest names in music are seen here rocking leather shirts.

Justin Bieber                                                         Kendrick Lamar                                                            Kanye

You already know what I'm thinking. That's right Imma make my own "leather"shirt. While in Unique, I found a faux leather skirt, size 2X and I had a black shirt that I purchased from A.C. Moore for $3.33.

I'm going to replace the front panel of the shirt with the faux leather, so I cut along the seams and removed it, but I left the collar of the T-shirt and the sleeves.

First I cut one side of the skirt and then cut it in half. Then I used the front panel that I cut from the T-shirt as my pattern to cut the skirt and pinned the pattern to the faux leather skirt.

After I cut it, I pinned it inside out on the T-shirt, taking special care while pinning on the collar.

Guess what happened? Since I cut the skirt in half, it wasn't long enough, so I took the bottom half of the front panel to put at the bottom of the faux leather. I had to sew that together before I could sew the side seams.

After about an hour or so, I am happy with the finished product.

Here's how the collar turned out.

It was a little snug on me. I'll give it to my son, it'll hug his muscles.

LEATHER IS TRENDING!

Leather is all the rage! From Lebron James to Meek Mill, every rapper and/or baller can be seen rockin' leather these days.

Ok, so they really done messed up now. Because I got the idea to replicate this look by using a pair of faux leather leggings. I cut the sleeves off a black T-shirt that I got from Michael's. (3 for $10.00).  (I recommend slipping the legging on the arm and mark with chalk or pencil before cutting.)

Turned everything inside out and pinned them together and with my trusty sewing machine, sewed them together. (It took longer to pin it then to sew it).

My son was the inspiration/model for this creation. Voila!

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