In dire need of some new mundanewear
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janestarzBecause I'm in dire need of some new jeans, I decided to get off my butt and sew myself a new longsleeve.
You read that correctly. I need jeans. I sew a longsleeve. It was because of reasons...
I wanted some new shirts, because variety is slim, and I found this fabric in my stash. It was 2 meters, so it seemed a shame to make it into a shorter-sleeved shirt. I'd be throwing out half a meter of fabric. So it became a longsleeve. It also gave me an excuse to draft the longer sleeve. Now I have a perfectly fitting t-shirt pattern for both long and short sleeves!
While I was working on sewing the thing together, I realised that it was quite a busy fabric and could do with a solid coloured matching item. I noticed the colour scheme would work well with my newly to be knitted Harvest Cardigan. As I was driving to work on Saturday at the crack of dawn, mist over the fields and the air crisp and smelling slightly autumny, I was immediately inspired to knit warm vests and cardigans. Just this morning I had picked up the Harvest cardigan again, so I am suspiciously eying my muse, whose fault this probably is even though I am lacking evidence to prove it.
This is the fabric, alongside the knitting project. I think it will be a great match!
This is the finished longsleeve.
A side note: I will be posting watermarked pictures more often, as I'm trying to promote Dolle Griet. This image went up on the Dolle Griet Facebook too and I'm watermarking them for extra exposure and some semblance of copyright.
It also means I have to get my butt into gear to finish that cardigan I'm knitting! I've frogged a bit this morning since I noticed some errors in the previous rows, so I'm 2 rows down from where you pick up stitches along the collar, but this is a stockinette project and shouldn't require too much attention. (Seed stitch requires thought, because the knit stitches have to sit above the purl stitches and the other way around. Cables require time, since they pull your knitting together so you need more stitches than in other stitches to get the same width. Stockinette is the second-easiest stitch ever.)
Yay! New shirt!
You read that correctly. I need jeans. I sew a longsleeve. It was because of reasons...
I wanted some new shirts, because variety is slim, and I found this fabric in my stash. It was 2 meters, so it seemed a shame to make it into a shorter-sleeved shirt. I'd be throwing out half a meter of fabric. So it became a longsleeve. It also gave me an excuse to draft the longer sleeve. Now I have a perfectly fitting t-shirt pattern for both long and short sleeves!
While I was working on sewing the thing together, I realised that it was quite a busy fabric and could do with a solid coloured matching item. I noticed the colour scheme would work well with my newly to be knitted Harvest Cardigan. As I was driving to work on Saturday at the crack of dawn, mist over the fields and the air crisp and smelling slightly autumny, I was immediately inspired to knit warm vests and cardigans. Just this morning I had picked up the Harvest cardigan again, so I am suspiciously eying my muse, whose fault this probably is even though I am lacking evidence to prove it.
This is the fabric, alongside the knitting project. I think it will be a great match!
This is the finished longsleeve.
A side note: I will be posting watermarked pictures more often, as I'm trying to promote Dolle Griet. This image went up on the Dolle Griet Facebook too and I'm watermarking them for extra exposure and some semblance of copyright.
It also means I have to get my butt into gear to finish that cardigan I'm knitting! I've frogged a bit this morning since I noticed some errors in the previous rows, so I'm 2 rows down from where you pick up stitches along the collar, but this is a stockinette project and shouldn't require too much attention. (Seed stitch requires thought, because the knit stitches have to sit above the purl stitches and the other way around. Cables require time, since they pull your knitting together so you need more stitches than in other stitches to get the same width. Stockinette is the second-easiest stitch ever.)
Yay! New shirt!
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Date: 2015-09-03 09:04 pm (UTC)'t Is een mooi shirt geworden en inderdaad een goeie combi met je nieuwe vest-in-wording!
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