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The Pepper Sweater is a step-by-step video series designed to guide you through sewing the Pepper sweater, from choosing your size to finishing the final details.
In this sewalong, Erica walks you through each stage of the process in short, focused lessons. You can move through the videos at your own pace, pause as needed, or skip ahead if you’re already comfortable with certain steps.
Pepper is a cozy pullover with an oversized collar and wide cuffs that add just enough structure while keeping the overall fit relaxed. The roomy shape, dropped shoulders, and high-hip hem make it easy to layer over everyday outfits.
To follow along, you’ll need the Pepper sweater pattern. Seamwork members can download it as part of their membership, and non-members can purchase it individually in the shop.
Getting Started
Fabric recommendations: Look for medium-weight or heavyweight fabrics knit fabrics with at least 25% stretch, such as sweatshirt fleece, fleece, French terry, sherpa knits, rib knits and sweater knits.
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Prepare to Sew
This lesson covers all the basic things you need to know to get started with this sewalong. If you’re a beginner, this will be really helpful to watch!
If you feel like you already know how to get your pattern and fabric ready for sewing, go ahead and skip to the next lesson and you’ll learn to do some helpful fitting adjustments for the Pepper sweater.
You’re going to learn how to:
- Select a pattern and reference its skill level
- Select a size
- Prepare patterns and fabric
- Cut and mark fabric
Fitting Adjustments
And here are some additional fitting resources if you need them:
- If you need to adjust the armhole depth, use this tutorial.
- If you want to blend between sizes, use this video tutorial.
- To adjust the shoulder slope, follow this tutorial.
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Here are fitting tutorials for the shoulders and sleeves. - Here are tutorials for wide or narrow shoulder adjustments.
- Here are tutorials for small bust adjustments and full bust adjustments.
- If you prefer videos, there are bust adjustment videos in the Hansie sewalong here.
Sewing Instructions
The PDF instructions will be your main guide as you work through this pattern, but we’ve created this video to walk you through the trickiest steps in detail. If you need help on a step not shown in this video, check out the Community Group Sew, where other Seamworkers and staff are ready to help out!
The trickiest steps for this pattern are:
Attach cuffs (01:34)
Sew hem (07:40)
Watch the Devon sewalong to see all steps for constructing a similar pattern.
