Mustard T-shirt

This is my second T-shirt from this pattern and my second make with this fabric, so it should have all come together like a dream…

Hmm... not quite, but not a fail.

I do like the fabric, I am aware that the colour doesn’t really suit my skin tone, but hey ho, I like it. I’ll have to see how it washes over time. I fear it might start to look old pretty fast, but for now it feels good: soft yet sturdy.

I like the pattern, the Kirsten Kimono Tee, but I don’t think it worked as well for the heavier weight of this interlock. I used jersey last time and it handled the kimono sleeves better. These are quite puckered under the arm where it curves into the sleeve.

My machine still didn’t behave for the twin needle hem so I hemmed the bottom by hand and hemmed the sleeves with a binding.

Can you spot the "design feature"?

I made loads of mistakes with the neck and the sleeve binding this time. Practice made me lazy, not perfect. First, I cut the neck binding on the bias. Should have read the pattern. Then I attached it wrong side out! I’m so lazy that I decided that the exposed seam at the back neck could be a design feature and so I left it like that. Shock, horror! The bias explains the slight ripple along the neckline. I think. Then, (there’s more!) I cut the sleeve bindings with the stretch running vertically, not horizontally. Again, did I rip out and re-do? Gosh no! That’s why they are a bit ripply too.

Anyway, there’s not that much to say about this top, it’s a pretty boring make. I might not have posted about it, except for the mistakes, but I’m pleased to have an early Autumn piece that goes with a lot of things and layers up nicely with my favourite cardigan.

Cost: £5.13 for the second yard of interlock fabric.