Theo polo

Last month I finally made and posted my first Theo from Zonen09. I had been procrastinating for months. I was very happy with the result and even my husband and mother consider it to be one of the most successful sewing projects I have done. Now I got the taste, I wanted more. I had seen several Theo's from knit fabric like hers or hers and I wanted some of that for my son.

I have a few fabric coupons that are half a meter long (and 145 wide) which is not enough for a full fledged Theo. She and she solved this by making a Liam polo instead. I decided to make a Theo polo. A Theo hack so to say. I simply cut the front piece as one (take the middle point as indicated on the pattern on the fold) and added a partial placket.

The fabric I used has a big print and if I would make the traditional type of polo a rhino would be looking a bit weird. For a traditional polo you always need a bit of seam allowance, even if it is just 2 mm. This would have distorted the print. Therefore I chose to use a contrasting placket. I used this extensive tutorial and all went well.

The rhino fabric is from Lillestoff, I bought it last year, but fell out of love with the print in the meantime (like usual). I really felt I needed to use it now, because it is kind a young boyish print and was afraid my (only) son would grow out of liking these prints. I chose for a contrasting yellow striped fabric to match with the little bees on the rhino fabric.

I used the pattern I had already cut for the previous Theo. Because I didn't make any extra details, except for the empty piping at the back, I could sew the shirt in one evening.

Earlier this week I posted another contributor post on the Kids Clothes Week blog, did you see it? I write about my typical sewing mistakes.

I love to hear what you think of my creations. Feel free to leave a comment in the language you prefer (although Google translate might have to assist me if you choose something different than English, German, Dutch or Hungarian).