As usual, life has been pretty crazy around here. My good friend Ash got kicked out and is living with my mom and I for the foreseeable future. Even with her living in the sewing room spare bedroom, I managed to make this tank and cut out several other projects last week.
Tank is from daffodil yellow jersey from fabric.com's clearance section bought supercheap at $1.95/yard. The buttons, which I hate, are from JoAnn. I am for sure going to rip them off and put yellow ones on, soon as I find some little yellow ones.
Like my pattern weights? I figured the tealight candle thing out after vetoing canned food for being too heavy and too large to cut around.
I forgot to cut notches before sewing in the side pannels the first time. See all of those puckers? Not pretty. I ripped both out and sewed them back in, this time cutting notches, and they went in much better...
...but they also didn't line up. The notches on both were way off and both panels were about an inch too long on the ends. It's not very noticeable and frankly, I wasn't in the mood to rip them out again. Maybe this is why I sew so many wadders?
Overall, it's a cute pattern and I'd like to try the collared view in the dress length sometime. The racerback and fake-placket front are easy but stylish.
Cute shirt! Gathers are the bane of my sewing skills. What is really bad about this is that I can remember when I was a teenager my mom would alway have me to evenly distribute the gatherwhen she was sewing. It's gotten where I started putting patterns back if I saw gathers in the design. How sad is that? Pretty darn sad I would say!
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