Current Mood : Sleepy
Wow, was that basketball
flannel scrap small ! It was maybe a half inch bigger than the one I used for
Frankie’s t-shirt yesterday, but still much too tiny to make even a sleeveless
tank for the guys. It could make the *front* of a sleeveless tank, though…hmmm.
My favorite tank pattern is a super-simple one-piece-on-the-fold kind, so using
even two different pieces of fabric would be awkward. How would I even do that
? There was a woven orange cotton scrap, that’d work for the back, but…how ?
Kinda simple, actually. Just
sew the basketball print and the orange piece together, along the largest
sides, fold, and cut the pattern like usual. And Fray-check the heck out of it.
I had a little extra fun sewing down the seam allowances at the shoulders,
where the two fabrics met. Rather than exactly center the pattern on the
fabric, I placed the pattern a bit more to the flannel print side, so you can’t
really see the orange back unless the doll modeling is turned completely
around, back to you. I wondered if that’s how Mattel does Barbie’s ‘print on
front, solid color on back’ dresses. It’s so simple, it pretty much has to be,
especially when ya make a couple million of ‘em at a time. Just wish they kinda
angled Barbie’s patterns a bit more to the pretty print front, ya know ?
Anyway, I’m happy with my
latest sewing effort, and I have a few more questions answered, a little more
experience sewing flannel, and I’ve spent a lot more time away from eBay, Etsy,
and various message boards. I think crafting’s really helping me a lot. Much as
I love hanging with fellow fans, these are, after all, the slump months, and I
can complain enough on my own !
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