Alterations
This summer I bought a sweatshirt and a Hardy Heron t-shirt from the Canonical shop. (I'd like an Ibex t-shirt now, please.) I misjudged the sizing guidelines and ended up with a sweatshirt that was at least a size too big (but my t-shirt fits exactly the way I like). Today I was inspired by an old episode of Threadbangers, and LornaJane's recent adventures in conference t-shirt alterations, and made my sweatshirt fit. It took me about 10 minutes.
This is how it went:
1. Too big, I'm actually this size inside...
2. Find another sweatshirt to use as a guide. This is my current fave (a Flickr hoodie)...turn the too-big sweatshirt inside out. Place the smaller one on top and use chalk to mark the outline of the properly fitting sweatshirt. Sew along these lines.
3. Try on.
4. Cut off the extra fabric. Leave a bit of seam allowance if you don't have a proper serger. I left about 0.75" of fabric. On these scraps you can see the huge amount of bulk that was in the sleeves. The Flickr hoodie is a raglan sleeve, but the Ubuntu sweatshirt is a drop shoulder. (not that this matters, but it does further confirm that raglan sleeves are better fitting in sweaters and therefore are FTW).
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That's a nice hack. All the length of the original, but a better fit...
We really need to get a customising booth going at one of the conferences! That hoodie looks so much better now - and as you say its really quick. I wore my customised Ibuildings shirt at the weekend and got a lot of compliments on that - its well worth the short time it takes to make the change. Nice job :)
It would be really nice if that worked for making shirts fit tall people (like me)...