Two Christmases ago I made neck warmers for gifts, and the leftover polar fleece in several colours has been taking up sewing room space ever since. So I went out of my comfort zone and semi-cloned an old M&S gilet that's seen better days.
It has princess seams, in-seam pockets and a decent size collar - lots of fiddling about with the pattern, adjusting the fit, improvising, but in the end I got pretty much what I wanted. Best of all it's a better fit than the Simplicity pattern I used before, and and even than the M&S gilet. The inside is not a thing of beauty but only I will see that. Lining fabric inside pocket and grey sweatshirt fleece inside collar are from my scraps box (sorry, one of several scraps boxes
) and grey zip is from stash. It's only a simple vest, not exactly rocket science, but at least I stretched myself.
The pants are an Elle/Vogue mash-up in purple ponte - think I posted those a while back.
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