I'm ready to turn the clock ahead wearing my new Hello Kitty shirt. Ignore all that snow in the background! Spring is right around the corner, and it really felt like it today. Recap: Liberty of London tana lawn and coordinating gingham, in a hack of my TNT buttondown shirt pattern. The Liberty fabric was [...]
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More "Kitty" construction
Warning: Shirtmaking geek alert! Purrrring along here in "Hello Kitty" world. With the fronts completed I turn my attention to the back and yoke. I've decided to eliminate the center box pleat at the back, so things are pretty simple here. My plan all along has been to use the gingham as a contrasting inner yoke. [...]
Hello Kitty, getting started
OK, I didn't spend a ton of time and effort deciding how to hack my TNT pattern. No muslin. Basically I just threw some pins in an existing shirt. Like this.... My TNT shirt pattern has very long tails. No way it's ever gonna come untucked! The Hello Kitty shirt, however, is meant to be untucked. [...]
For my next project, say "Hello" to…….
Hello Kitty!!!! As interpreted by Liberty of London no less! First, a huge apology. This post is WAY overdue. One of my readers generously sent me a length of Liberty tana lawn in this fantastic Hello Kitty print ages ago. She said it was "a bargain", not her colors, and that she wanted me [...]
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