Current Mood : Four shirts to the...hallway.
Election Hangover was energized
at Chez Insanity ! Never did get to the pants last night – and we were up late,
listening to speeches and perusing the Internet At Large’s opinions on things.
Many hilarious images, wittily captioned, from all sides of the US political
spectrum – and some from overseas. I think I slept out of sheer exhaustion. And
with a belly full from two pieces of yummy cornbread !
But once we were up, I
figured I’d best get to sewing, since it’d probably be one of those where I got
interrupted every ten minutes. M & FIL were still feeling a bit tired, so
Dearest Son’s visit got pushed to tomorrow, after therapy. Thing was, I didn’t
get interrupted hardly at all. I pretty much had all day to sew, so I did. Dearest
was happily taking photos of his new ponies, and Beloved Hubby had class, so
why not ?
The guys are arranged in
order of when their shirts were made, with my Slo Moe stand-in on the far left,
in yesterday’s trial. In some ways, it looks the best, but I can tell you, it
is the worst. Seams are barely holding on, there’s threads and pencil / chalk
marks everywhere, and the collar’s twisted, frayed, and messy. It was too
narrow and too long, I had to tear the shirt up to get it sewn in there. OK,
but I figured I could do better.
So I started off today with
the already cut pieces, and…well, have a look at Ricardo, my CAM vampire’s
shirt. It’s useable, but I think the 70s
wants its collar back. Must’ve added the seam allowance in twice. Doesn’t match
well, either, which is a problem I’ve had since sewing for Ken and Fiyero. Let’s
redraft and move on…
Version 3 isn’t a vast
improvement over 2, but I can now sew one of these shirts, collar and all, in
about 45 minutes, an hour with a break midway. I changed the order of sewing,
so the Velcro ™ closure is sewn right after the collar is, before the side
seams. Much better in the final, and with that already done, it’s not gonna be
another ‘waiting patiently to be finished’ shirt. Chris seems to like it well
enough.
And finishing today’s lineup
is Joel, who looks pretty good. There’s maybe 1/8 of an inch difference between
his collar and Signature Jackson Jekyll’s yellow shirt, so I’ll probably trim
the pattern once more and try it one last time. Tomorrow. I also had to cut and
hem a hole in the back for his wings, which barely show in the photo. Gotta
remember to start doing that more often, or Joel’s gonna have a very limited
wardrobe !
While I love having the time
to prototype a new effort, there’s only one problem with it. When I finally do
get it right (or at least ‘right enough’ !), I’m so sick of sewing the same
thing over and over, I don’t sew it again for weeks, if not months ! So don’t
be too surprised if you see the same guys tomorrow, some with new pants. I
still wanna try pockets…
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