The Selfish Seamstress had the philosophy of saving your sewing effort for fun things, for things you couldn't go easily buy. I get the idea behind that, absolutely, but I'd say the definition of "easily" is variable enough that this can still qualify as good ol' Selfish Sewing (with good ol' New Look 6068)
This isn't the most straightforwardly basic T-shirt, because I didn't have enough of the narrow tubular ribbing to make more than the body of the shirt, so I had to figure out other fabrics to use for the rest of the shirt parts:
A larger ribbing for the neckband
And bits of jersey salvaged from T-shirt scraps (received as a gift in the friend's relative's destash) for the sleeves, so each part has its own texture
And, yes, two rows of stitching on the sleeves and hem to fake the look of a cover stitch
And, yep, center back seam
(and completely un-pressed fabric)
Getting the hang of doing construction seams on the serger, although still not the neckband (still haven't acquired fabric clips, and there's not enough neckband width to pin farther from the edge like I do with the sleeves. At least, I don't think there's enough width...)
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