And once again I have chosen a pattern that I really like.

Let it Snow sweatshirt in summer hahaha

I had a lot of problems with this hoodie. I’m still not quite sure whether I like the end result as it is now.

You can see exactly what my problem is with the hood! Two different shades of white.

When I made the holes for the cord on the hood, I hadn’t paid attention and also made the hole through the embroidered middle section. Stupid me!

I ordered 4!!!!! different white fabrics, but all of them were not the same white color as my original.
So I made the new middle section with it.

But then things got really bad. I made markings on all the pieces with blue sewing chalk so that I knew where the embroidery had to be. Then I ironed embroidery stabilizer onto the back and embroidered all the pieces.

When ALL the embroidery was done, I wanted to wash out the blue chalk in the washing machine. But it didn’t work! Not even after two washes.
Google then told me that this chalk should NEVER be ironed. Unfortunately, I had never noticed this before because I had never marked the right side of the fabric with it. At most for cutting, but it disappears when you sew.

So I had to cut out almost all the pieces again and re-embroider them. But this time I marked them with a pencil.

The only parts I kept are the back and the lower front.
You can still see the blue sewing chalk next to the top red line on the pocket!

If I decide to make the hoodie again, I will definitely do the lettering on the arm from top to bottom and no longer all the way around. It says ” Ocean is calling”. But you can’t really see it when you’re wearing the hoodie.

I still like this hoodie. But every time I look at it, I see the two different shades of white!

Here is the complete hoodie from the front and back. Oh yes, I still have to wash out the marks from the pencil that you can still see.