The S.W.A.P. for Kai is finally done!  I still have several things I need to make for him, but I wanted to make sure these fit him first.  There are actually a few other Ottobre pants I would like to make for Kai, so I need to get them traced while I’m still in “Ottobre-pain-in-the-arse” tracing mode.  I just need more parchment paper to be able to trace them.

I put the fall colors one up again, so everything was in one place.

Feel free to ignore the duplicatitis. 🙂

Basketball Boy

I picked up this bit of embroidered corduroy last year at one point.  There wasn’t much of it and it is less than 45″ wide, so the options were limited.  I decided to use it more for the accent on the pants and for the main body of the vest.  I really love how this outfit turned out.

The patterns for this outfit are:

Pants: Ottobre 6/2010 # 32

Vest: Ottobre 6/2010 # 34

Shirt: Ottobre 6/2010 # 33

The pants were supposed to be button fly, but Kai isn’t thrilled about that.  I decided to just do a faux fly, since the denim had enough stretch in it.

The vest isn’t exactly like the pattern.  It is supposed to be buttons, but I wanted an easier to use zipper.  I omitted the front button facing and just put a zipper in between the layers.  I also forgot about the knit facing on the hood, and made it without.  Guess I need to look at the instructions, huh??

The shirt has a snap placket.  Ottobre didn’t put picture instructions in for that, so I just winged it.  Pretty sure it turned out mostly right.  I drew out the basketball and stenciled it onto an orange knit fabric with heat and bond on the backside.  Once dry I ironed it onto the shirt and did a straight stitch around the outside.

Little hunter

The fabric for these outfits are a polartec wind fabric backed with fleece.  That should be nice and warm in the winter!   The shirt is a cotton-lyrca knit with leather patches, and the vest is more of the polartec with knit bindings.

The patterns for this outfit are:

Pants:  Ottobre 6/2009 #27

Vest:  Ottobre 6/2010 #34

Shirt:  Ottobre 1/2010 #22

The pants are mostly the same as the pattern.  I just omitted the back pocket flaps, as my fabric wasn’t making the curves very well.  I also did the back pocket a little different.

The shirt is just a basic shirt.  It went up to size 140, but I added length to about 146.  I added a leather patch similar to hunting shirts.

The vest is unlined, as it is fleece backed.  I also omitted the hoodie and just added a neck binding and a thinner band on the bottom so that I could use the zipper I had available.

Fall Colors

The fabric for this outfit is brown thermal knit for the top, stretch cotton twill for the pants and an embroidered fleece and woven for the hoodie.

This goes along with the cream, brown and orange theme.

The patterns for this outfit are:

Pants: Ottobre 6/2010 #31

Shirt:  Ottobre 1/2010 #24

The hoodie is my own draft via modifying the above shirt pattern (widened sleeve and armhole, cut the front, different neckline and facings).  It is inspired by this pin for menswear.  It is a pullover hoodie sold overseas in Asia.  It definitely has a very Asian spin to the design (more modern, slimmer cuts).  I did my own take on it and kidifyied it (not a real word, as spell check is telling me).

The hoodie is fun because it mixes wovens with knits.  Now when I mix the different fabrics I usually cut the woven on a bias, so it has stretch like the knit.  If you don’t do that, the fabric that would have stretched and be comfy is now more rigid.

 Everything fit him pretty well, so now I have some solid patterns to make him some more clothes. 🙂

 9-Piece Boy S.W.A.P.!