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Interesting seam details & necklines

For the past couple months, I have been binge watching all the Stargate shows. (I can't stand most of the current junk that's being produced, and have decided to go back and watch all the stuff I missed over the last 40 years.)

The Atlantis series is more science team than military so they have a lot of interesting jackets and t-shirts. They're sort of uniform-like in that different departments wear different colors but there isn't any obvious reason for when they wear what they wear (it really just boils down to costumers doing what they do for visual interest/variety in a scene). The budget for season 3 included a bunch of custom t-shirts for the expedition leader who rarely leaves the station to give her more variety than jacket over plain red t-shirt or just plain red t-shirt.

I really like the seams on the first one and the neckline is fascinating, but I'm not sure I really like the shape. You can see the black sides on the princess-seamed shirt worn by someone who wears white - there are red and blue versions of that style as well. And then they also made a v-neck with the facing on the outside - plain but still interesting.

Has anyone else ever watched this or any of the other Stargate series? Gotta love shows that were made back when a standard season was at least 20 episodes!

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I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild

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Time-lapse floor install (part 2)

We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild

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YIKESSSSSSSSSSSSSS....... Folkwear Croatian Shirt Faillll...
I thought, "This shirt has no fitting whatsoever. Surely I don't need to muslin this, just use my measurements... " HA.

I'm sending you to the link b/c I think you should know about patternreview.com if you don't. But yikes.
https://sewing.patternreview.com/review/pattern/208009

Oh, I got the fabric from a deadstock place in Singapore (which ickily shipped from China) and I'm 75% pleased with that. The fabric is super comfy and soft, and it showed up quickly... but there were a couple of holes. Bubbo, fwiw.

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The Plan

So this is my plan for all those fabric covered triangles. Make eleventy million little triangles into a million slightly bigger triangles. Then make those into a bunch of hexagons and put them all together into a giant hexagon.

The last photo is my "map" once I've made all the triangles. Colored outlines are just so I can see the hexagons because I'll get better joins at the points if I assemble like this instead of long straight runs of rows of triangles. Plus it will be easier to hold smaller sections as I hand-stitch.

I think I only have about 150 papers left to cover with fabric, but I need to start laying what I have out to see if I need any specific colors (maybe some lighter highlights).

Any guesses what my inspiration is? I'll put the answer/photo in the comments.

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My current pile of triangles

I cut more fabric triangles and am in the process of basting them to the papers. We'll see how many more I need after I baste these. I'm guessing I'll still have about 200 or more papers left.

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