{"id":5113,"date":"2015-07-09T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2015-07-09T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T21:47:12","slug":"recent-projects-3-another-loud-shirt-for-isabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/07\/09\/recent-projects-3-another-loud-shirt-for-isabel\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent projects #3: another LOUD shirt for Isabel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished my second handmade shirt for Isabel last weekend. It’s still an obvious mess, but, compared to my first finished shirt, it went much easier. Everything went more quickly because I understood how the pieces fit together; therefore the steps of construction flowed logically into one another. I was also more comfortable with hand sewing in general, so I made smaller and more even stitches and fewer mistakes. I guess my skills really were developing during those six months that I was avoiding my sewing kit! <\/p>\n

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For comparison, here’s the first shirt I made. Tight arms, oversize collar, obviously uneven hem, and haphazard stitching are readily apparent. Also…who thought it was a good idea to take the pictures against a fluorescent green background?! :p<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here’s shirt #2, the meretriciousness of which is complemented by a radioactive magenta wig and gold stretchy jeans. I scaled up the pattern slightly, from 80% of original size for shirt #1 to 90% of original for shirt#2, so the fit has improved, especially in the sleeves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stitching is more even all around, with better finishing. Smaller collar looks more in scale. Hem looks uneven, even though it’s not, because of odd snap placement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’m more pleased with shirt #2 than with shirt #1. The colors work better together, and it’s better made overall. I wish that it wasn’t so bulky and boxy, especially around the upper torso, but the fit is a function of the pattern, which essentially double-layers both front panels. I see now that I chose a somewhat advanced pattern for my first hand-sewing attempts, and I probably could have gotten more success and less frustration from something simpler [and less bulky], but I’ve come too far with Andrea’s pattern to drop back to something easier at the moment. I have two more shirts in the same style to finish, and then I might find a different pattern. First things first though…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished my second handmade shirt for Isabel last weekend. It’s still an obvious mess, but, compared to my first finished shirt, it went much easier. Everything went more quickly because I understood how the pieces fit together; therefore the steps of construction flowed logically into one another. I was also more comfortable with hand… Continue reading Recent projects #3: another LOUD shirt for Isabel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[669,668],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-handmade-clothes","tag-isabel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}