Updated Sweatshirt using Artspira

With the Artspira app, you can add a custom design to any embroidery project. Updating once-loved garments is a great way to give them a new life. To begin, get your Artspira app out and start designing. There are hundreds of designs at your fingertips to create a one-of-a-kind embroidery pattern. This project embraces the cooler months with a cozy winter theme to update an old sweatshirt. 

Let’s make it! 

Supplies:

• Brother, Sewing and Embroidery Machine
• The Artspira App
• An old sweatshirt
• Fabric scissors
• Straight pins
• A measuring tape

Time: 1 hour

Directions

Decide how you want to update your sweatshirt. Think about what the existing sweatshirt needs like a new hemline or sleeve length or maybe it just needs a cool, new Artspira embroidery design. Measure the sweatshirt for the placement and size of your design.

On your Artspira app, go to the embroidery design section and scroll thru different themes to get your creative juices flowing.

In this project, a snowflake design from the winter category is being used so it can be worn all season long.

The design process is fun and easy: adding elements, sizing them, and creating your desired size. And with Artspira, you can also personalize it with the many font options.

Once you’re done, hit Save, then transfer it to your embroidery machine.

For this sweatshirt project, we will crop it later and add the design to the center front. 

Cut up the side seams and hoop the front of the sweatshirt with the appropriate stabilizer.

Start embroidering.

When the design is complete, take it off the embroidery machine and remove the stabilizer.

Remember, you can always create more embroidery elements on Artspira to add to other parts of the sweatshirt. 

To finish the redesign of the sweatshirt, lay it flat and crop the bottom.

With the sweatshirt right sides facing each other, pin the sides

and sew merging the seam allowance into the existing stitches under the arm hole.

Trim the excess seam allowance on the side seams.

Turn the sweatshirt right side out. 

Decide on the length of your sweatshirt and fold the bottom under to create a hem.

Sew the bottom using a hemming stitch.

Give the bottom hem a quick press to finish. 

And there you have it, a fashionable update to an old boring sweatshirt.

With Artspira you can create custom designs to add to any project. Get excited and start exploring Artspira today.