Two hacks for the Comfy Cowl Hoodie! How to add thumbholes and side seam pockets

Hey all! Jeanine here again – and this time I’m going to be using the free pocket pattern from Mummykins and Me on the comfy cowl – AND showing you how to add thumbholes and do a thumb cuff!!!! Because hoodies really should have thumb cuffs – keeps hands warm during wintery weather! Or you could even use add a thumbhole cuff to our gorgeous new Dreamy Drape Top.

What you’ll need:

The FREE side seam pocket pattern
The Comfy Cowl Hoodie pattern (bundle, ladies or childs)
Or the Dreamy Drape Top pattern (bundle, ladies, childs)

Adding a side seam pocket

The pocket add on is really quite easy, very standard on front and back pieces place pocket right sides down about an inch up from the bottom, and sew and finish along the side edge.

You could do this on either the Comfy Cowl, or the waistband version of the Dreamy Drape.

Then place front and back together and sew up the side as usual – just going around the pockets as well.

and side pockets are all good to go! Easy peasy 🙂

Now Let’s move onto thumb cuffs… a little less easy peasy – but not tooooo bad and there is a video as well as pictures!

How to add thumbholes

For thumb cuffs we are going to start with doubling the height of your cuff pieces

then fold it in half hot dog ways and divide into quarters.

Now sew that middle quarter section. (I kinda scribbled it above.

Now after that middle section is sewed bring the sides together – left side to left side and right side to right side

Now on both the left side and the right side you will sew from that last quarter line to meet up exactly with the previous stitching – but do not go over it.

So now it will look like this – just those end flaps left open on both sides. We are almost done.

Now you are going to flip so you can open up and match those last quarters together. Match the stitching in the middle and then you will sew down one side and up the other!