T-shirt Weekend, Part 2

...which was two weekends ago now, and I sewed on the intervening weekend, too, so I need to work a little faster on posting (there are two more shirts from that weekend...)

After the wavy patchwork t-shirt worked out well enough, I decided I'd make another patchwork t-shirt, but this time for the kiddo.  The pile of t-shirts that had been being re-used was getting to the point of not having really large pieces left, so I tried to make the patch pieces as large as possible, and I ended up with this

Details--and how it ultimately changed--beyond the cut.

T-shirt Weekend, Part 1

So, after the successes of the quick t-shirts I made for the kiddo...and...after realizing that "comfortably baggy fit on a nearly-nine-year-old-kid" = "slim fit on that kid's mom," I decided to try making a few shirts for me from the same pattern.

Well...more or less "the same pattern" because...y'know...it's me...

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I recently received a very generous box of doll and sewing items (thanks again, Susan!), which included some Halloween print cloth--hot pink Halloween print!  With happy little bats!  And neon green letter outlines!  Outlining the word Halloween!  The word Halloween that was printed backwards!

Wait what.

Yep yep, the word Halloween was printed backwards on the entirety of the cloth, while everything on the selvedge was not printed backwards.  Huh...OK...so...um...

My first thought was to use it to make a skirt (there was a meter of it, having come from metric-wielding Canada) and take mirror selfies so the print would be seen in the right direction, but that would still leave it backwards in real life.  Hmm.

Then I remembered the shirt(s) Peter of Male Pattern Boldness made with the print on the inside, and I decided to follow that example.  Yes, the colors are muted, but, given how bright the print was, it's still not exactly pastel...

A shirt you can hear

I made another very lout t-shirt for the kiddo, and from cloth left over from doll sewing from things sent by a friend, and here it is

 The cloth was originally an adult t-shirt, but I had previously used the sleeves to make doll clothes.  As small as the kiddo is, I still couldn't wrangle enough cloth for the sleeves from what was left, so I used bits of another of the previously-used-for-something-else t-shirts that had also been sent.  But I didn't use the sleeves, because...those had already been used for something else...  Cutting these sleeves from the hemline of the black t-shirt worked just fine and allowed me to use the existing coverstitched hems, which I also kept from the loud t-shirt for the hems of the finished shirt.  (This was supposed to be a fast project, and it was, just...with a day or so pause between each step...)

And here you can see how I handled the fact that the existing hems would be meeting at the side seams, so I tacked down the seam allowances, after trimming them away from the edge, with reasonably matching top stitching.  The...uh...the other side didn't line up quite as well...but with the print this loud, I really didn't stress over it.

I also applied a contrast pocket, to bring a bit more black to it.  I realized a while ago, when dressing dolls, that I like to have three areas of a contrasting color, and I guess that applies to clothing items like this, too.  Anyway.  I used another bit of the black t-shirt hem for the top of the pocket and folded over the sides before edge stitching, then top stitching a presser-foot-width away.  I didn't turn one corner correctly, but, again--quick project *shrugs*

I realized after I took this photo that the print direction is reversed from the front, but that's the way it was on the original shirt, and it hadn't occurred to me that it would be flipped.  S'OK.  And the collar lays much flatter after the whole thing was washed--I probably should have taken it in to be a bit smaller, but it was a seamless circle and I didn't want to make a seam in it, y'know?

The kiddo has already worn it to school, which restarted last week.  I wonder what kind of impression it made on his new teacher...