Another tee.

I know I said my list was a mile long... does anyone else put off sewing projects you "have" to do? I feel like if I must do it I put it off until the last minute. No? Just me? Mkay. Anyways, I pulled out all my knit options for me yesterday before I made the grey shirt and I found an option I LOVED but went with another. Silly, right? So I thought about it all afternoon and night and so in the morning instead of checking my facebook and blogs (such a time sucker for me!) I knocked the tee out in about 30 minutes. The girls are so good in the morning and Jack was watching Curious George, the stars aligned and it all went together quickly! So another easy cap tee in yet another jersey knit from girl charlee. The ribbing is a teal from Joann's.


I was worried it might be a little tween-type of a print, but I like it, so there! Plus, when I saw the teal ribbing with it... Sold! I went with the scoop neck this time, I made it just a tad higher... no real measurements here, ha! Maybe like a 1/2"? So my complaint about the sleeves... totally my fault!! With even just the tiny amount added from binding them made such a difference, now they sit at a nice comfortable length on my shoulder. If the pindot from yesterday wasn't so hard to work with I would go back and bind them.
Ben dearest, if you read my sewing blog (which I highly doubt), for Mother's Day I would loooove a gift certificate to girl charlee . That is all.

To hem, or not to hem.

The last time I posted about sewing for myself I commented that I will buy multiples of the exact same shirt once I find the fit I like. Uh-oh. I found a shirt pattern that I just may make ten of. It is the easy cap sleeve shirt by jocole. I made one up last night in a really light weight knit that was sort of sheer, I knew I would never wear it anywhere, but at $2 a yard it was a good choice to make to check the fit. I made the scoop neck in large and I think if I do the scoop neck again I will bring it up the neck line up just a bit.

I am shooting a friend's bridal photos this evening and since we are cutting it really close on time I wont be able to do anything with my free time (ha! what's that?) until they are finished. So I wanted to knock another one out before then... and I didn't feel like doing laundry this morning... and I had nothing to wear... Yeah, I am that lazy. But at about 40 minutes start to finish (thank goodness the twins are usually good nappers!) it took less time to make a shirt than to do the laundry. No joke.

This time I went with the jewel neck. It also has a scoop neck, v-neck and a boat neck. I don't *love* the sleeves, but I didn't have the time to draft sleeves for it. You see, the beauty of this pattern is there are (if you don't count the binding) only two pattern pieces. I used a sliver pindot from girlcharlee, oh I am addicted to that place. It was a little tough to work with, so I bound the neck edges but just turned the sleeves under 1/8" and hemmed them. Not quite as nice and neat as binding them... but I didn't have the patience today. So now I can't decide if I should hem the length or not... I washed twice, but would hate for it to shrink in the wash, I don't mind the length- but does it look too long? What I do know for sure, though, is that I will be making more of these!! After I edit pictures... and finish my two badmiton tops I have had cut out for the twins since before Easter, and make three bridesmaid skirts... Wow, my list seems long when I write it all out!