Batty

 I have a list of projects I want to sew eventually, but didn't feel like working on any of them yet (although the list did include the previous jacket, so it has been worked on already.  Just a little.)  I still wanted to sew something, and decided to finally see how much of a shirt I could get out of the 3/4 yard of Halloween bat print interlock from Joann that's been in my stash for a few years.

Turns out I could get quite a bit of shirt out of it

Simple Sequins

 It's past my bedtime but the neighborhood is already exploding with New Year's Eve fireworks (there's nearly an hour left until midnight) so I might as well make this post now, huh

Behold, the first thing made from the as-is sequins: a super simple mock turtleneck...that I still managed to miscalculate

Not enough of a miscalculation to regret, though!

Roll the Die: Reverse Appliqué

 Technically no die roll for this one, since it was the last on the list.  Curiously, it was the oldest idea on the list as well: a long sleeve shirt with a rib cage and arm bones rendered in reverse appliqué.

Unfortunately, my brain had apparently decided that these six die roll projects were in reality One Very Large Project, and getting to this last one was like getting to buttons on a shirt (or vest) in that it was accompanied by the feeling of "I just want this done so the whole thing will be finished" and things got...rushed.

I will say, it does work for proof of concept!

Test Shirt: Zombie

 I traced off the pattern from the previous post and swung out the dart and decided to make this test version from the novelty 'zombie' knit I got (on clearance) from JoAnn years ago

I had held on to that fabric for a very long time, not really knowing what to make from it.  So I decided, enh, might as well use it for this.  I figured I'd use a coordinating knit for the sleeves, but there was just enough of it to finagle the sleeves, too!

Test Shirt: Clowncore Proximity Edition

 I have an idea for a reverse appliqué knit shirt, but I wasn't sure what pattern to use, so I decided to do a test run with Kwik Sew 303

 

 since it offered a much slimmer sleeve than most of my knit shirt patterns, which are largely from the 1980s and 1990s (or are a bit more modern but don't have long sleeve options at all.)

Of course, I also don't want to deal with darts on the future reverse appliqué shirt, so I folded out the dart before cutting this.  And also! A previous owner had used newspaper to add hip curves to this very-straight pattern, and I decided that seemed like a good idea. (Alas, the newspaper is mostly sports, and that doesn't interest me, but the automotive ads are fun, and the print date was September 21, 1981--over a decade after the pattern's 1970 copyright.)

(note: not the final form)