After such a labor intensive project as Butterick 5814, it's no surprise that I decided to return to the gigantic knit stash for a quick fix. To make things really easy I pulled out my favorite TNT pattern, Sewaholic's Renfrew. This is the V-neck long sleeve view, made up in a very nondrapy rayon knit.
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| Kind of nautical right, so the Lobster makes total sense. Just nod politely. | |
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But Renfrews are like potato chips, you can't make just one so I dug deeper into the stash and found this awesome rayon tweedy knit. It just screamed cowl neck Renfrew.
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| Knit with white and black threads for gray tweedy goodness! |
There wasn't quite enough fabric to do the cowl as drafted by Tasia so I drafted a smaller on hat folded over. The width is the same but it's about 12" high and folds over to 6". Why that high, cause that's how much fabric I had.
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| RTW told me to do this and it works just peachy. |
Still looks super cute. This rayon had some drape to it which worked well with the cowl.
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| I love gray, what does that say about me? |
Lastly I decided to jump on the dolmen sleeve bandwagon and knock off a RTW shirt I'd bought, traced and returned. The RTW shirt had very deep hems, about 3" or so but I found that a total sewing nightmare on the temperamental coverstitch machine. Changed the hems to 1" and that made the hem and sleeves go much faster. The neck is finished with a self binding, also attached with the coverstitch machine. While I like that type of finish it's a pain in the ass to do. In fact this last shirt reminded me why Renfrew is such a great pattern, you don't have to worry about coverstitching!!!!
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| I'm a fashionable criminal. |
Not totally sure that dolmen sleeves are a great look on me, but it's comfortable and layers with cardigans just fine.
I've worn all 3 shirts multiple times already and as a bonus they were all from stash. Feels great to bust out 3 garments in a weekend. What a pretty set of triplets they make.
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| You don't want to know how much more gray fabric is in my stash. |
