lots of thread + lots of backstitching = works in progress!

ricky came up with this idea last last christmas, while we were in taiwan. we passed a hoodie that had a sick design. looked at the price tag, totally not worth. "hey, why don't we do this ourselves?"

sounds like a good idea. we bought plain white sweaters at ross/marshalls, and i plotted a graph of blue painter's tape, mapped out the colors, then stitched away. but after a few months, i needed a break, and unfortunately, that break has lasted a year. i'm coming back to them now, since i'll be graduated (!) and working part-time in two weeks. this is my chance to really go crazy with all the things on my to-do list.

anyway, here's what mine looks like so far (sorry for bad picture quality, still using point-and-shoot!); the blue tape pieces left on there are what i haven't finished on the front yet:

close(r)-up:

i plan to finish the 5 colored crosses over the sleeves, the back, and the hood, too. perhaps also the hoodie strings?

for ricky's i was little more ambitious... chester showed me a t-shirt with a screen-printed inverted great wave of kanagawa-esque graphic, and i thought that would be really cool to stitch an outline of it onto the sweater. this one is taking considerably longer b/c of all the backstitching, but i wanted it really reinforced and sturdy to last all the wonderful years of wear to come. the blue tape of the whitewater is a rough estimate of future refinement, but here's where things stand with this one:


it also connects from the back of the sweater to the front on the left side:


phew. lots of work ahead of me. but i'm super excited to see the end result... stay posted!