A Trio of Tees

2.15.2013

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.



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.

8 comments:

  1. How much gray fabric do you have in your stash? You told me I don't want to know...so now I really want to know!

    Lovely tees. You're being productive for my sake, aren't you. You're such a good sewcialist.

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    1. I probably have 5-6 solid gray jerseys, then gray prints, then strips that also have gray in them. The most of the rest of the stash is black. Maybe I should buy for colors.

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  2. All very nice! Its great to have things you can wear every day... :)

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    1. Actually had a big hole in the long sleeve T-shirt department so it also necessary. :)

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  3. You are awesome. So are your tshirts and your lobster puppet!

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    1. Larry the lobster thanks you. He thinks he's pretty cool especially when you squeeze him and he goes blub blub. hee hee hee

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  4. Nice tops. You really motivate--I'm still not sewing for myself, but I'm motivated. Ha Ha Ha!!

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    1. Thanks! Honestly I tend to get a bunch of stuff done at once and then produce nothing for weeks. :)

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