Muscle Shirt Mania

If I had one go-to pattern this summer, it was definitely the Tide Pool Tank by Peekaboo Pattern Shop.  It provided the backbone for my son's Pokemon Hoodie and my Daughter's Lucky Charm Camp Shirt. In fact, my son loved his "Pokemon muscle shirt" so much I couldn't resist adding to his tank top collection.

My entire family is huge Marvel fans, and my son is no exception. When I showed him this print and offered to make him a "muscle shirt," he was very excited for the idea. My son runs long and lean like the pattern maker's kids do, but even so I still sized him up 2x from what the size chart said to get this fit; his Pokemon hoodie fit a little tighter than I would have liked.

I also couldn't resist trying for a fourth-of-July hoodie for him: a scrap of this Kammie Lou Lou original fabric turned up while I was searching for my daughter's green camp shirt fabric, and I couldn't help myself: I had to buy it. Which in turn meant I HAD to sew it up quickly if I didn't want it to become part of my guilt-laden to-do pile.

So, I stayed up to sew this hoodie the night before we traveled out to a family 4th of July celebration. It's basically the same modifications as the Pokemon hoodie, although it's sized like the Marvel shirt above. 

After all that labor my son insisted on wearing his Captain America PJs for the actual holiday (sigh...) but he was happy enough to put this on for photos/goodbyes on July 5th. He didn't live in his 4th of July one as I had hoped, but he did have fun wearing it a few times and modeling it for pics!

And, Marvel was a definite reach-for-it-first kind of win, so I really can't complain.