![Snuggly sweatshirt Coco dress - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern Snuggly sweatshirt Coco dress - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KKzwaWSCWUs/VK6YB8zVE0I/AAAAAAAAOvM/S0oEnMy5k34/s1600/Coco_sweatshirt_dress_black_2.jpg)
![Snuggly sweatshirt Coco top - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern Snuggly sweatshirt Coco top - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-trqIBK5CLFQ/VK6ckZ1OejI/AAAAAAAAOwc/j14zU1_D9Gk/s1600/Coco_sweatshirt_red_5.jpg)
Are you cold? I am. It's freezing in London! I did some emergency sewing over the holidays and now have two snuggly sweatshirt Cocos to keep me warm - one top and one dress. The fabrics, which I bought from Goldhawk Road, are super soft, thick and squidgy, with fleecy insides. I may look like the Michelin man in them, but I don't care - I feel so snug and smug!
![Snuggly sweatshirt Coco top - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern Snuggly sweatshirt Coco top - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvT2PWCFo_w/VK6dmRtVoCI/AAAAAAAAOwk/HRHbsm47t9o/s1600/Coco_sweatshirt_red_6.jpg)
It was great to find that the Coco sewing pattern works so well with sweatshirt knit fabric – the simplicity of the design looks great as a sweatshirt top or dress, and the pattern includes enough ease to work well with low stretch material. I did, however, make a few simple adjustments to account for the thickness of the fabric and its shrinkable nature – namely, deepening the funnel neck piece to allow it to roll sufficiently, and lengthening the hemline. I’ll go into these in a bit more detail in the next post, along with some tricks I figured out along the way to make sweatshirt fabric easier to work with...
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![Snuggly sweatshirt Coco dress - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern Snuggly sweatshirt Coco dress - Tilly and the Buttons sewing pattern](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ve7OUd6nDuw/VK6YByaIlXI/AAAAAAAAOv4/a8wURGb08hQ/s1600/Coco_sweatshirt_dress_black_1.jpg)
These two garments are now on constant rotation in my wardrobe until the season changes!
[Soundtrack: 'River' by Ibeyi]