Monday, March 5, 2012

Bits & Pieces...

Thank you everyone for your kind remarks on my heirloom cami.  I really do appreciate your taking the time to read my blog and make a comment. 

This post would have been up last Thursday but we had family in for a long weekend visit.  I spend a lot of my time cleaning and prepping the overflow fabric storage guest room to be presentable.  LOL.  It was nice to visit again; it's been years since we'd been able to get together.

One commenter mentioned moving from a "masterpiece" to a T-shirt?  LOL.  When you have a wonderful DH who supports my fabriholicism  (hmmm is that even word?), I have to placate him with a garment or two.  Lately his thing is t-shirts.  He's tall, 6'3" and not overweight.  Probably 200 pounds.  Why is it when you try to buy for tall they always think overweight too?  So if I/he purchased a shirt, its huge in the belly area.  He has his shirts made now just so he can get a decent athletic cut.  Why am I not making his shirts, you say?  Well, for one thing, the fabrics are really beautiful and so much better than I can get my hands on and secondly, they can make them so much cheaper than I can.  And because he purchases several at a time, he gets $100 shirts for half price.  It's a really good deal. Oh, lastly, what is more boring than making a man's business shirt.  Ugh.  So I make him a casual shirt here and there.

Hence going from an heirloom camisole to a tee.  LOL.







This is Kwik Sew 3878.  I'll be making View A.  Once I have this fitted to his satisfaction, it'll be a no-brainer to sew.  I even have a fabric to test it. 

I'm pressing the pattern and prepping the fabric.

Back soon with more progress.

3 comments:

  1. All good reasons. I've been making some shirts for my DH just to practice and improve my skills.

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  2. I made my DH a dress shirt once. I agree---you can buy them with better fabric than you can buy. Besides, I think I worked for 50 cents an hour by making the shirt. My crowning moment was figuring out how to put in the double yoke without handstitching it closed. 30 years ago I invented the hot dog method---or at least I'm claiming to have invented it! I made him a pair of dress slacks, too.
    Been there, done that! I never felt the need to prove I could do either of those again! LOL

    Elaine

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  3. I've been thinking about making t-shirts for my hubby but haven't built up the nerve yet. Hubs is also tall, with a large neck size and broad shoulders. I don't have much experience with knits, so I just haven't taken the plunge. Do you have any suggestions for quality knit sources?

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