Another favor asked of a friend, another thing sewn as thanks (along with a thing baked as additional thanks, since friend's spouse also helped.)
I made it in a rush last night, and it definitely is, let's say, charmingly off-model (even aside from the squareness) But! There's no question that it's Gengar.
I cut sleeves from spiderweb lace for the snail shirt, but decided not to use them on that shirt. This left me with spiderweb sleeves to use elsewhere
I recently visited a different Walmart than usual, and of course I checked the mill end precut rolls. I limited my purchases to one three yard cut of a lovely double border eyelet, and one two yard roll of what seemed to be a sturdy navy cotton knit backed with a soft gray heather knit, which I thought would make a nice hoodie for Husband.
But.
When I opened and unrolled that knit, I discovered that, instead of two knits fused together, it was two pieces. (Expecting two pieces fused is not unreasonable, given other things I've seen and purchased from the mill end precut roll selection in the past.)
And the two pieces were both 24" long, instead of a full yard each. They were 70" wide, so I guess, by area, it's kinda the same.
And also, both pieces had, near a cut edge, the big ugly seams used to join pieces from separate rolls for continuous finishing processes. Which is surely why they ended up in the mill end precuts, but that didn't alleviate any of the disappointment.
The navy blue cotton turned out to be a technical fabric, which I might have a use for. But, the gray? In such a short length, with the seam making the contiguous usable area even shorter? Well...I was so irritated with it that I decided I needed to use it immediately.
(returning was not an option because I didn't want to be That Person walking in with two raggedly cut pieces of fabric and trying to explain that the label promised something different, so gimme back those $3.)
Because the length was so short, I decided to make a shirt for me (the kiddo is a lanky noodle.) I started with KwikSew 1650, cutting the front and back from that, and using some of the precious remaining spiderweb knit to make contrast sleeves.
After getting the neckband sewn, I realized that I absolutely would not ever wear the soft flowing cropped sweatshirt that it would be if I continued. So: New Look 6068 to make the torso more closely cut and the shoulders narrower, then use the adapted KwikSew 303 sleeve to squeeze out some tiny short sleeves, with the length limited by working with what was above the join seam, and add some contrast bits to eke out a bit more length.
It still seemed like it was going to be a bit bland, so...snail.
Just over a year ago, I made a cardigan with Simplicity 8951. I wasn't happy with it.
The first time I made Simplicity 8951, I deviated quite a bit from the instructions, and it turned out fun! But when I made the same deviations the second time, the fabric was just so much thicker that it didn't work as well.
That didn't, unfortunately (but not unexpectedly) stop me from trying to make it again with the same deviations, and, this time, from a thicker fabric. And with the peter pan collar option!
It...went badly
(spoiler: it got better)
I removed the ease from the sleeve caps of the previous iteration of Fake Burda 6401 and tried again
A few months a go, I finally made an 'official' Fake Burda 6401 pattern, instead of improvising it each time I wanted to make it, and yesterday I finally tried using the pattern.
It works pretty well!
Nearly two years ago, I took an old idea I'd used on a much earlier thrifted skirt and applied it to a freshly-made skirt. It turned out well, but...the waistband was, even then, too small to be comfortable.
Since that skirt was made from the sheath version of New Look 6843, it would have been cut in size 16. So my brain, after making the size 16 New Look 6843 sheath skirt in the previous post work, wondered if I could do something similar with this one.
The first thing I did was remove the waistband. I let out the back darts by stitching from the point to the edge, tapering to a presser-foot-width from the upper edges, on both the shell and lining darts. Then I picked out the original stitches. I couldn't let out the front darts, because one had been decoratively stitched over so it would have been some trouble to change, and I wanted to keep the front symmetrical so I didn't touch the other dart. Instead, I let out the upper side seams by sewing from the original stitching a few inches above the hem, tapering quickly to a presser-foot-width inside the edge of the serged seam finishing. Then I removed the original stitching in those areas and pressed everything.
I barely had enough of the wool blend fabric to make the original waist band (I had forgotten that it was pieced) so it was no problem deciding to use a different fabric for the replacement, larger waistband. I used the same black twill as another (A-line) 6843, but made it as wide as the waistband from Simplicity 9815. The shades of black of the twill and the wool blend aren't the same, but I don't generally dress in a way that exposes waistbands, so it gets a pass.
(If I ever get a proper belt, I might add belt loops.)
