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As a year eight in fabric we are making our own polarfleace sweatshirts. First we have to chose our size and what colours we want. I am doing light purple on the body and arms, a dark purple pocket and a white hood. We then have to draw the pattern on to our fabric and cut it out. We also have the choice of putting a disign on either the back or front of our sweashirts. I have a three coloured rainbow on the back and two hearts (pink and blue) on the front. The next step is to sew the designs on. For this we use the zigzag stitch and sew as close to the edge as possble.

Finally the jersey starts to look a bit like a jersey after the sholder seams are joined. Then we sew on the hood. For both of these we do a straight stitch and then a zigzag stitch on the edge so it doesn't fray. The pocket is next, it needs to be hemmed before it is sewen on. The first time I sewed it on it was too low so with the help of the sewing teacher I unpicked it and movedit up. The nest step is to sew on the arms. Then to do the side seams, this took the longest to do. This is where I got up to on the last lesson we had, but we have another lesson tomorow so hopefully I will be able to finish!

I only have to hem everything and make everything shorter. Beacuse when I was chossing what size I wanted I thought that the small was too short in the body and arms but the medium was way to big so I made everything longer. But I made WAY too long and the bottom of my jumper is longer than my school skirt. And the arms are about 15cm too long! I also need to make the armpit area smaller beacuse even though I didn't make it bigger it is still to big. It seams like a lot but we have an hour and a half to use so if I work hard I should (hopefully) be able to.

I really hope that I will finish my jersey beacuse, well, I just want to finish it, and I want to start a soccer ball which is usually made in year seven but becasue we had fabric at the end of the year last year we didn't have time to make one. :)