DIY - spiky American Apparel sweater - TUTORIAL

Hi! 

Today, let's learn together from my mistakes and let's make some crazy spiky shoulder pads! The truth is, I saw a great beige vintage sweater at Topshop, with spiky shoulder pads. Cool, but awfully expensive for what it was, and the sweaters didn't fit me at all. I thus decided to make spiky shoulder pads by myself, and sew them on a killer sweater. 

Here's what you need : 

- A piece of leather / fake leather (I found mine on Etsy, 700 mm for 7$)

- Spikes. (I took 12 pieces, 6 for each shoulder. 8$ on Etsy)

- Scissors

- Thread and a needle

- A sharp tool

- Some paper (from a magazine or whatever) 

- A nice sweater that you're ready to maybe ruin for life, or maybe make instantly cooler (depending on how well you can sew). I used my favorite sweater in the world, the Tri-Blend Light Weight Raglan Pull Over, by American Apparel (36€)

First of all, you need to figure out what shapes you want your shoulder pads to have. Try cutting different oval shapes in the sheet of paper. When you're satisfied of the size and shape, use the form to cut the leather fabric. Once you have your two oval pieces of leather, you want to put the spikes on them :

Use the sharp tool to make small holes into the leather pieces, and then add the spikes, one by one. Be sure to mark the back of the leather pieces with each spike's place before you start making holes everywhere.

That's it! Now you just have to sew the pieces on the shoulder of your sweater! 

Tadaaaaaa!

Now here's the sweater in situation: 

American Apparel customized sweater / Primark jeans / Boohoo wedges / So Capristi cuff / Fuck necklace from Etsy