So I got a shirt off the American Eagle clearance racks about 6 months ago. It was one of those crop tops (which I would never wear), but it was super cute and polka-dotty and I loved the bike on it, PLUS it was like 9 or 10 bucks. So clearly I had to get it.
I have done a lot of stuff lately with sewing "patches" of clothing onto different hoodies and jackets of mine. So I decided to put the bike patch on a hoodie so that I could still wear it, but not so that it looks like a 4 year old's shirt. :)
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Supplies: Plain hoodie, Shirt to use as patch, Sewing machine, Iron, Sharp fabric scissors, Pins, Elbow pad template
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Turn the patch upside down and fold all sides back about an inch. Pin them down. Iron them flat, until they stay folded down on their own. Take pins out.
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Slide your hoodie onto the ironing board like this (like the ironing board was wearing it), so that it lays very flat and so your patch doesn't get pinned to both sides of the hoodie. Center the patch.
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Keeping edges folded back, pin the patch to the front of the hoodie.
The more pins, the better it will hold in place.
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Slide hoodie onto sewing machine like the machine was wearing it. With the pins still in place, begin sewing a straight line down the edges, fairly close to the edges. Take the pins out as the needle gets closer to them. Lift up presser foot at each corner, reposition hoodie, and continue. Be very careful at this point that the hoodie doesn't bunch up, or it will get all sewed together. This part should take the longest.
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