Birb Shirt

 It is a fundamental truth that I will never again assemble anything with quite the same chaos as the stew shirt.

But it also a fundamental truth that the drawer in which I keep cuts of knits intended for doll use is very very crowded.  So.  I decided I would again assemble a patchwork of knits and use Kwik•Sew 1650 to make another sweatshirt for the kiddo.

The nature of the cloth curation for potential doll use meant that there was a clear coherence in the color palette, which I figured would be a mark against this project in the kiddo's eyes, but I guess he still perceived it as chaotic enough

Plus, y'know...birds

I took the offensive on the ribbing this time and cut everything significantly longer than the pattern called for.

Which meant I ended up trimming the neckband back down to the pattern size

But. Everything else I left long, and it went together with much less struggle than when I follow the pattern.

Big thanks to several people for many of the fabrics involved in this, a lot of which have already been used for doll clothes (and what hasn't been used for doll clothes yet, there is still plenty left to do that.)  The black and gray stripes with the eyeballs started as a Target Halloween hoodie that the kiddo wore to shreds, as well as long ago outgrew.  I used a little bit of it to make a pillow, and the rest has been lurking in the doll knits drawer.  He liked seeing it again in this shirt.

and now I am considering making a multi-print shirt for myself...but from two larger yardage prints that I like together.  For now, I'm happy that the kiddo is happy with this, and I'm even happier that the doll knits drawer is just a bit less tightly-packed.