Sheer & White

After cutting the pieces for the previous shirt, there was still a decent amount of fabric left, so I decided to see if I could eke out a short sleeve version of the same kind of shirt.

Yes, I could.

 

Sheer & Black

One of the fabrics I got in that Fabric Mart order was a low price nylon point d'espirit netting.  Something about the grungy dark olive ground, with pink-accented white flowers outlined in black, made me think it needed to be a peasant-style blouse, to layer under jumpers when the weather warms up.

Now, while the existence of (most of) these jumpers still remains theoretical, the shirt is a reality.

 

Cash Back

 I made a shirt for The Child in 2018, from a Robert Kaufman tossed money print.  The shirt has long since been outgrown, but still hangs in the closet.  I was going through all of the too-small clothes that The Child will not let go of, and, when I got to that one, a certain wistfulness was expressed by said Child.

I hopped on the Joann site and saw that they did still have it in stock!  And on deep sale! (This was in December, when everything is traditionally on deep sale.)  I ordered enough to make a long sleeve shirt in The Child's current size, and in two weeks, the order...got cancelled due to lack of stock.

The Child was disappointed, although it was mixed with the habitual sarcasm, so I didn't worry too much about not being able to get it.

I went to a Joann on Sunday for something else (which they did not have, despite the site saying they did), and checked the novelty print cottons--there was a little of the money print left in stock in the store!  Not much, though--1.6 yards, according to the cutting ticket.  It was at a slight discount, and I got another 10% off for finishing off the bolt, so that was nice.

I got home and serged the ends and added it to a load of laundry.  I set about cutting it that night, and was able to squeeze almost all of the pieces for a short sleeve version from it, needing only a bit of another fabric for the inside of the back yoke.

I sewed it completely Monday, and not in a rush.

...which is something I probably never thought I would be able to do, if asked around the time I made the first shirt from this print.

Moth Holes & Free Lace

A craft thrift store visit in 2022 saw me get, among other fabrics (most of which have been used!), a length of black and white glen plaid.  In the linked post, I noted that it had a spot of damage.  Further inspection found a lot of damage.  The moth babies feasted on this.

I did use a bit of it in the B&W wool patchwork vest--the cloth has two faces, so I used the darker side in the vest (it's the fabric mentioned as being from the larger yardage.)  Between the moth holes and the...general oddness of the fabric--the yarns aren't as fine as I envision when I think of glen plaid, giving it a sort of 1970s vibe--I had started feeling rather apathetic about this fabric.

However!  Ever since I made that long A-line skirt from the patchwork of heavier fabric, I had wanted to try making a whole cloth skirt, in a heavier fabric, using the same pattern (McCall's 7981, modified to omit the front band and insert a back zipper.)  Since I still think fondly of an A-line B&W glen plaid skirt I made in 2013, I decided to see if I could get the pattern pieces for this skirt to fit on the yardage I had, and if I could avoid the worst of the damage while doing so.  Yes on the first, no on the second.

However!  Another long-gone skirt of which I think fondly was a thrifted skirt that developed holes, and I covered them up with appliqués cut from various fabric prints.  (And I guess I didn't think that merited being posted here, because I can't find a post about it.)  Appliqués, I thought, would be a fun way to cover the moth damage, especially since it was mostly limited to one area of the fabric...which turned into two disconnected areas of the skirt, because I had to cut the pattern pieces in opposite orientation.

I spent a day sorting through potential fabrics--all cotton calicos--and trims, cutting out motifs and developing an aesthetic direction to tie the chaos together.  Then I remembered the bag of cut pieces of yardage lace that I had gotten from the free table at the craft thrift store, and started mixing those in.

But then...

I realized that the lace motifs alone would work very well.  I put all of the chaos choices into a box, to consider using on a future project.  The lace pieces got more carefully trimmed, and fused to Wonder Under, and then fused onto the partly-assembled skirt.  After that, zigzagging around the edges, and then finishing the rest of the skirt.

Behold:

 I  think it worked out pretty well.