Madras Plaidras

Made a quick shirt, another iteration of McCall's 5675 from 1977

...although, it would have been quicker if I'd, y'know, had as much cloth as really needed.  As it was, I spent a lot of time moving things around in very fiddly ways trying to make the last pieces--bias-cut pieces no less!--work.  And I definitely didn't have enough yardage to pattern match the stripes from the bodice to the sleeves...nor enough to make the sleeves the length shown...or even to make the whole shirt the length shown...

 I had to piece the bias band/neck tie bits, which actually went well...then I ran out of bobbin thread while topstitching.  Now, I'm not usually one to shy away from picking out a few inches (or even feet) of topstitching to correct for problems like this, but, for this shirt...?  Pfft, whatever.

 I like to think it's considerably less obvious in real life.

 And, of course, double topstitching everywhere and sleeves attached in a very sloppy version of the method shared by Male Pattern Boldness.

Still, it's done, I have a loose woven shirt to wear in hot summer heat, and I have one less bit of cloth in the stash.  All things that are good.

More cat sewing

Although, this time, it's not sewing a cat as much as it's sewing with cat print cloth.

This cloth, from Seikodo's Barcode Cats range (which I figured out by searching on the selvedge information) (And, yes, that cat has a flip phone--there's a 2006 copyright date on that selvedge, too.)

I thrifted it in December, cut it out about a month ago (when everybody in the house was sick, yay) and sewed it today--which is a pretty fast purchase-to-finished-item turnaround for me...