Boys like constructions vehicles, dinosaurs and color blocking. OK, maybe it's just me who likes the last one. Gotta use up all those knit scraps! Since I went scrap happy last week making dresses for my niece, it only seem fair that her brother get some new duds too. The patterns selected were the Oliver + S raglan and ShwinDesigns "Any time at all" tee. Here they are kicking back together.
They seem to be high fiving each other about something awesome. Maybe weaseling an extra cookie out of mom.
I've blogged about the Oliver + S shirt
before and it's a pattern that has graced my sewing table many times. On this shirt the pocket was left off since the dinosaur fabric is a ribbed jersey. I'd rather stab myself with a seam ripper than try to sew a pocket on some ribbed jersey via the sewing machine. Since my nephew doesn't have a penny fetish, unlike a certain boy in my household, he shouldn't care.
The SwinDesigns shirt also has a minor tweak. Instead of putting a ribbed cuff on the sleeves I hemmed them. My ribbing stash appeared to have enough gray ribbing, but on closer inspection it was two different shades. Damn you bad eyes! Can't you tell the difference between cool gray and warm gray under artificial light? After some quick thinking about solutions to this ribbing problem, I measured the shirt against some other 4 T garments. My findings where that the "Any time at all tee" has very long sleeves compared to other patterns. It also has extra length in the body and a wider neckline. The width of the shirt is the same as my other 4 T patterns, so I decided to shorten the sleeves and hem finishing them with the coverstitch machine.
I have no problems with the sizing being bigger since kids will always grow into it. I may size down though on the next version for Desmond. He was confused about me making shirts that did not belong to him. "But that's mine Mommy." I threw some construction vehicle print fabric at him and he forgot all about it.
You know what boys also like? A bowl full of names waiting to be pulled for a prize draw. He carried out the instruction of "Only pick one" perfectly and the winner was Elisa. Congratulations Elisa! Email me your address at knit(dot)n(dot)frog23@gmail and I will put the Sew Wendy book and the fabric into the mail for you.
