DIY School Spirit Sweatshirt with Yarn Couching

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inside: a fun tutorial to create a DIY school spirit sweatshirt with yarn couching. Make a personalized school shirt for adorable results. Yarn couching creates cozy sweatshirts.

I’ve been sharing a few ideas this month to create your own school spirit wear, and today I have another fun option. You can use yarn couching to personalize any sweatshirt to support your school or team. Today I’m sharing this fun sweats outfit that I made for Rose to support her brothers during this basketball season.

a fun tutorial to create a DIY school spirit sweatshirt with yarn couching. Make a personalized school shirt for adorable results. Yarn couching creates cozy sweatshirts.

DIY School Spirit Wear

Here’s the new outfit I made for Rose. Her brother is playing basketball this season and this cute outfit supports his school and team. This is a super cozy outfit that she can wear as a set or separates. I’ll give the full outfit details in this post.

You can find my live show detailing the wide leg sweatpants HERE on YouTube. I used my free kids sweatpants as the base. You can find the free pdf sweatpants pattern here. The video shows how I edited the legs to make them wider. I also lowered the waist of the pattern by about 1.5″ and added a waistband, rather than folding the fabric over.

support your team with yarn couching sweatshirt

The sweatshirt is the Greenstyle Reef Sweatshirt – youth version. I also have the adult version and love it. I’m not an affiliate for this company, these are just pdf patterns I have used and loved. I used two colors of sweatshirt fleece and rib knit for the bands.

cute cozy sweatshirt to support your school

team spirit sweats outfit with yarn couching

Both the pants and sweatshirt have pockets {of course!} The Sweatshirt has a cowl neck and a hood for ultimate coziness. I’m sure Rose will get a lot of wear out of this whole outfit.

Yarn Couching to support your team

To add a team or school name to this outfit, I used yarn couching. I love this feature of my Stellaire machine and this time I was experimenting with using a thicker yarn. You can see how thick the yarn is here. SO cozy… not familiar with yarn couching? Here’s the full tutorial to get you started – How to.. Yarn Couching. If you don’t have a machine with built in couching designs, make sure you are using a stitch that will fully tack down the yarn as you stitch.

With the thicker yarn you have two options. Use your hand to move the yarn {instead of the couching foot moving the yarn} OR use your embroidery foot. Both of these require monitoring, but the results are amazing.

Other amazing ideas to creates school spirit wear

Here are some other ideas for creating custom sweatshirts. All of these ideas convert perfectly to creating DIY spirit wear or sweatshirts to support your team. You can check out the tutorials for each below.