I found a few useful-looking pieces of cloth in the Walmart mill end precuts last weekend. I did not need any more cloth. But. They were one piece of black and white stripe knit and two pieces of french terry, one black and one a sort of...sagey muted mint green color. My tendency to go for loud prints on sturdy cottons plus the Walmart mill end precut section's tendency to present mostly pure polyester means I don't have a lot of plain knits, so I went ahead and got them. (yes, one is striped and not plain, this is not about that.)
I had wanted to make another sweatshirt for the kiddo, just because. So I got KwikSew 1650 again
it goes up to kid size 14, but is a 1980s pattern, so it's a very generous kid size 14. I didn't measure the kiddo to see what size he'd technically need, because things like t-shirts and sweatshirts have a wide range of "acceptable" in terms of fit.
I used the ribbing of view A and the larger shoulder inset of view B and ended up with this
The ribbing was already in my stash, as was the heathered jersey, which was originally part of a t-shirt I shortened. It's cut 90° off grain due to the necessity of fitting it onto the piece of fabric I had, but its relative lack of stretch isn't a problem and it gives a mildly interesting look, with the slubs going horizontal instead of vertical (not that anyone will notice. it's fine.)
Edge stitching and top stitching on the insets, edge stitching all around the neckband
No other exposed stitching. So. Fast project.
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