Red Flower Shirt

Here is my latest endeavor: Simplicity 2696, view B. I really needed some more summer shirts and I thought View B with short sleeves would be nice, especially since it had so much ease that I could postpone the dreaded FBA once more.

Because I'm still nervous about my skill level, I made this shirt out of some old sheets that I love. I always thought I would make lounging pants or something out of them, but I love the way this looks. Granted, it's not perfect. The front placket thingy was difficult to put in. I could NOT get that one curve in correctly and it has a slight bubble at the edge. Oh well.

Little did I know, the sleeves would be the most annoying part of the pattern. I now call this view B for Bitch....as in Bitch-ass sleeves.

The sleeves did not fit. Period. It was like an inch or more extra fabric. I took them out again and overlapped them a little more to take out the extra fabric. They still looked floppy and weird, especially in the under arm area. So basically I undid the top of the sleeve and pull in one edge to tighten it. It's fine now, but it was so annoying.

I even made up a little song as I was sewing. Something to the tune of The Grinch. It went sort of like "You're a mean one, Mr. Bitch. You're never going to fit!"  Ha ha, I don't know why I started singing to that tune.

Summer is over now, I know, but I actually made the shirt at the end of July and only had the sleeves left to go. But I got distracted. Things have changed around here and I've been very busy... buying a house. Eep! I can hardly believe it. 

I have so many things on my mind to sew and have shopped quite a bit in preparation, but I guess that might all have to wait. I just don't know how much I'll be able to accomplish with closing on the house, my Japan trip in October with Sarah, then moving!, and three weeks in South Africa for Christmas. Everything has changed. Good changes, but just a lot.

Comments

[louise reynen]

hello there...

...these red flowers/on white are just lovely

...i most especially like the first photo...& i can see how/why that sleeve could be a "dickens"

...love little tune to sing...grinch didn't steal this cute top!

cheers louise

[Sarah Jackson]

I know why you sang The Grinch..any excuse to get closer to Christmas for you!

It's so freaking cute! I have to assume there was an international fashion show at the office? I'm so mad I wasn't there for it. Oh well... you'll have make something fall'y for Japan!

-Sarah

p.s. I tried on a hat for Japan that was either adorable or awful. So pissed you weren't there to text for the vote.

[Doe & Mouse]

Thanks, guys! I did not have an international fashion show at work. I was actually kind of disappointed in it, but it's starting to grow on me. The flowers hide a lot of the flaws in these photos.

Maybe the fact that the Grinch sews his santa suit together has something to do with it? And no, Sarah, it was not because I want it to be Christmas already. I'm not that bad.

I was actually in Macy's this weekend and the already have the Santa land area built. How ridiculous is that?!