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.

 

 The other main difference, beyond sleeve length, is that I used white and pink lace instead of black.

This lace also only has one decorative edge, with the other edge plain and straight, so I decided to apply it to the inside of the edges, sewn down to the back.

I still wanted to encase the raw edges, like I did with the other shirt, so this time I sewed the lace to the outside, then flipped the straight edge of the lace around to hide the raw edge of the fabric on the inside before stitching everything down.  And, I don't know if I made the channels a little wider, or if the white elastic is just a touch sturdier than the black elastic, but it went into the channel with relatively little finagling (not the hour it took to work the black elastic all the way in.)

There was not quite enough fabric left to so the full width of the short sleeves as given in Simplicity 9866, so I cut them with the narrower long sleeve pattern piece.

Part of me thinks I could have made them shorter and they would be more aesthetically pleasing to me, but then another part says pfft, no, they're so narrow that adding elastic to fit an even larger part of my arm would have made them even less floofy.

I had run out of the dark gray thread I'd loaded for the first shirt, and switched to white while sewing the elastic ends,and went ahead and used that for the shirt hem.

It's not as  glaring as I thought it would be, and it probably won't be visible when worn, so it's acceptable.  And you can just see one of the french seams going up the side there.

 

I was wearing this shirt when I sewed the shirt above, and, on a whim, I tried the above shirt on over the linked shirt and the combination was really cute.  So!  Maybe the layering will be possible with more than just all those jumpers I haven't yet made.