The husband said that he wanted to upgrade his look and go more corporate. He hasn't been wearing buttondowns regularly for some time, but I used to make him shirts regularly.
I redid his shirt pattern (improving/refining/refitting) with current fit trends in mind (we're loosening things up a la 90s) and this is the first shirt off the presses.
I had this piece of linen in stash (for him). It's lovely - blue threads one direction, aqua the other. But goodness it's stretchy, and it wrinkles just from humidity - it wrinkled sitting quietly in a pile for sewing. I decided pretty quickly that this was going to be a casual-dressy shirt (you know, the ones that say, "I am expensive", not the ones that say, "I am here to do your taxes" ), so I slightly increased the button distance and used some nice mussel-shell buttons from Wawak.
I have some fabric incoming, and I'm going to do some colorblocking and work creatively - really try to make things he couldn't buy off-the-rack, at least not at our price-point. I found that Land's End and American Tall carry suitable (ish) sizes for tall, not fat guys.
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
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
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
Three hundred paper triangles cut out and hole punched. I'll probably end up needing at least 300 more, but this will keep me busy for a while!
Yes, I know most paper templates can be purchased pre-cut for English paper piecing, but I chose a shape that I couldn't find as pre-cut and I don't want to wait for someone to custom cut what I want.
Swipe to see one of the pretty fabrics I plan to use for some of my triangles!
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Not bad for a first attempt at English paper piecing. I deliberately used a contrast thread so I could see if I needed to do anything differently.
I have a crazy idea in mind and this was just a test sample. It's going to take forever, but this should be the perfect mindless project to keep my hands busy when I'm listening to podcasts with my husband at night.
Triangle is 4" equilateral.
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My husband sent me a "funny clothes" compilation video, and I actually kind of like this one, lol! I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly how to construct this so you could still turn everything! It looks simple but it's actually really complex!
I don't think it has any seams - looks like one giant circle. But to clean finish those holes, you'd have to sew them in steps with some burrito action. Definitely have to sew one and then the other.
I might have to make a half scale version to see if I can.
