If you follow me on Instagram, you were inundated with pictures of a suit in progress the week before Easter.
The dang sleeves got to me. Well, the lapels got to me, but I managed to wrestle them into an acceptable state. The sleeves, well, it took three tries and cutting them down a good bit. I finally got them in, only to try the jacket on Sam and find it was too big all over. So we decided to finish it up for next year and just make him a shirt instead.
After a belated birthday party for Will and setting up for Easter at my grandma's, I started cutting up this thrifted shirt about 9:45 Saturday night.
By 12:45 (with a couple small breaks in between), I had a finished shirt. I cut the front using the existing placket/buttons/buttonholes. Only someone who sews lots of kids clothes would ever notice.
My family didn't even realize I made his shirt, and they know about my sewing obsession, so I took that as a compliment.
These are the best pictures I could get - perhaps I'm not bribing them properly?
Hopefully that suit fits next Easter. But for now, I'm happy to pack it away and work on something else!
The dang sleeves got to me. Well, the lapels got to me, but I managed to wrestle them into an acceptable state. The sleeves, well, it took three tries and cutting them down a good bit. I finally got them in, only to try the jacket on Sam and find it was too big all over. So we decided to finish it up for next year and just make him a shirt instead.
After a belated birthday party for Will and setting up for Easter at my grandma's, I started cutting up this thrifted shirt about 9:45 Saturday night.
By 12:45 (with a couple small breaks in between), I had a finished shirt. I cut the front using the existing placket/buttons/buttonholes. Only someone who sews lots of kids clothes would ever notice.
My family didn't even realize I made his shirt, and they know about my sewing obsession, so I took that as a compliment.
These are the best pictures I could get - perhaps I'm not bribing them properly?
Hopefully that suit fits next Easter. But for now, I'm happy to pack it away and work on something else!
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