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Apparantly, I'm not knitting fast enough to please my muse.
No one can knit a sweater in a week, but she says: "Never you mind. I've got a great idea!"
She's also a jealous lady, because I've been sewing all day and nothing went fast enough for her. My dearest mother picked a fabric with a very obvious pattern (shiny satin circles!) so I'd been pattern matching pretty much most of the day. Centre-back, shoulder-to-sleeve seam, centre-front, the collar and the stand, and even all the way down to the split at the cuff (well, I tried. It's not perfect, but the circles are at the same height and nothing is blatantly 'Oh. Well, you tried.')
See how lovely the circles at the top match the placement of the sleeve? It's like they just drop over the shoulder and down into the sleeve. Pretty nifty!
But Muse was not impressed. "Huh. Fancy that."
I had wanted to finish sewing the blouse and get well underway with the next project, but it was not to be. And then it was dinnertime, six pm.
She stirs.
I've grown to respect and expect her "Wouldn't it be nice if". But she really blindsighted me with this one.
It may have started as far back as a week ago. The woman giving the instruction class at Rijkers sewing machine store wore a lovely, bias-cut, a-symmetrical sweater. I wanted to copy it in another fabric. But alas, no time. The woman told me it's some sort of stash-busting challenge, to sew something from your stash each week.
This morning before going to work I went looking for a piece of fabric I'd picked up last year (for pyjama's I believe!). It was a remnant coupon but I couldn't find it. During lunch I remembered it was already in the atelier, and it was stashed in my jersey storage bin.
By the time it was six pm I had plucked my dartless blouse block from the pattern cupboard and was drafting a quick pattern. After all, I had all these lovely zips, just hanging around doing nothing.
I guess binge-watching two seasons of the Great British Sewing Bee was asking for it....
So without further ado and blaming all of this on Thalia, my dear muse; my new sweater:
Sweater, drafted on the block of a dartless blouse. Back panel taken in 4 cm in the waist (and then made straight again) to shave some excess room off.
The collar is symmetrical, but sewn on to match zip; shaped like #2 in this picture but with a more dramatic point at front. Zip runs from ¼th of front neckline to 9 cm below the shoulder seam.
Not shown: the hem runs a-symmetrical as well. The highest point of the hem is 5 cm above the hipline on the left side. The longest point is 20 cm longer and has a zip inserted in the side seam as well.
The thing even includes hand-sewn facings, a label and a double stitching line at all hems.
And now I'm dead.
I'll probably need to wear this tomorrow, as we're expecting temperatures to drop and the Bodemloos is still not finished!
No one can knit a sweater in a week, but she says: "Never you mind. I've got a great idea!"
She's also a jealous lady, because I've been sewing all day and nothing went fast enough for her. My dearest mother picked a fabric with a very obvious pattern (shiny satin circles!) so I'd been pattern matching pretty much most of the day. Centre-back, shoulder-to-sleeve seam, centre-front, the collar and the stand, and even all the way down to the split at the cuff (well, I tried. It's not perfect, but the circles are at the same height and nothing is blatantly 'Oh. Well, you tried.')
See how lovely the circles at the top match the placement of the sleeve? It's like they just drop over the shoulder and down into the sleeve. Pretty nifty!
But Muse was not impressed. "Huh. Fancy that."
I had wanted to finish sewing the blouse and get well underway with the next project, but it was not to be. And then it was dinnertime, six pm.
She stirs.
I've grown to respect and expect her "Wouldn't it be nice if". But she really blindsighted me with this one.
It may have started as far back as a week ago. The woman giving the instruction class at Rijkers sewing machine store wore a lovely, bias-cut, a-symmetrical sweater. I wanted to copy it in another fabric. But alas, no time. The woman told me it's some sort of stash-busting challenge, to sew something from your stash each week.
This morning before going to work I went looking for a piece of fabric I'd picked up last year (for pyjama's I believe!). It was a remnant coupon but I couldn't find it. During lunch I remembered it was already in the atelier, and it was stashed in my jersey storage bin.
By the time it was six pm I had plucked my dartless blouse block from the pattern cupboard and was drafting a quick pattern. After all, I had all these lovely zips, just hanging around doing nothing.
I guess binge-watching two seasons of the Great British Sewing Bee was asking for it....
So without further ado and blaming all of this on Thalia, my dear muse; my new sweater:
Sweater, drafted on the block of a dartless blouse. Back panel taken in 4 cm in the waist (and then made straight again) to shave some excess room off.
The collar is symmetrical, but sewn on to match zip; shaped like #2 in this picture but with a more dramatic point at front. Zip runs from ¼th of front neckline to 9 cm below the shoulder seam.
Not shown: the hem runs a-symmetrical as well. The highest point of the hem is 5 cm above the hipline on the left side. The longest point is 20 cm longer and has a zip inserted in the side seam as well.
The thing even includes hand-sewn facings, a label and a double stitching line at all hems.
And now I'm dead.
I'll probably need to wear this tomorrow, as we're expecting temperatures to drop and the Bodemloos is still not finished!
