Category: Tops
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OWOP week – Sept 6 to Sept 12
It’s OWOP week (One Week, One Pattern – organized this year by Handmade Jane). This is the week to wear the same pattern every day for seven days. Butterick B5988 is my go-to tee pattern. If you have read my blog before, you might recognize these. I really, really wanted to get another one made,…
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A Tale of Four Tees – Last but not Least!
Tonight I am catching up on my TNT Tee Contest posts and I wish to show you my last Tee, the 4th. I have my Tee #1 here, and Tee #2 here and here is Tee #3. You already know that this is my 4th make with my Butterick pattern – B5988. With this one…
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A Tale of Four Tees – #3
I finished Patternreview’s TNT Tee Contest. My 4 Tees are done, submitted to Patternreview, now I can finish posting about them here. I have my Tee #1 here, and my Tee #2 here and here is my Tee #3…. I am still using my Butterick pattern B5988, although this time I have stuck to the…
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A Tale of Four Tees – #2
Today I have for you my #2 Tee for Patternreview’s August TNT Tee Contest. I have used the very same pattern as my #1 Tee posted here, Butterick B5988, view B. This time my fabric is a 96% polyester, 4% spandex ITY knit and it feels very comfy!
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Reading Sewing Blogs is Good for my Health!
or “A Tale of Four Tees – #1” Again we are well into another month and I am well into another challenge. This month it is PatternReview’s turn. I have signed up for their TNT (tried and true) Tee Contest. I am to use one pattern and make four Tee shirts out knit fabrics. I…
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Still working on my Indie Patterns…
And I am sooo enjoying it! This time I am using a pattern from Skinny Bitch Curvy Chick, the Tonic 2 – with a few modifications. I have made the sleeves shorter for the summer and have made the hemline shorter in the front and longer in the back (like a mullet?). I found a…
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Indie Pattern Month and a 2nd “New to Me”
Ok it’s a re-run. Is it still a New-to-me if I have made it already? I don’t care! I just wanted to show you how much I really like this pattern from Teach Me Fashion, the two tone singlet! This material was a polyester but it is so silky. It was even a little slippery…
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Indie Pattern Month and a “New-to-Me”
Some of us already know it is Indie Pattern Month at the Monthly Stitch, and for those who don’t… Well… It is! This week’s challenge is “New-to-Me” – you have to sew up something using a pattern from an independent pattern maker, but it has to be a maker you have never tried before. I…