finally

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It’s getting to be that time of year when it is dark a lot and thus not conducive to photographing candies and sewn items and the like. Oh well. Anyway, after a long break from my sewing machine (these things just happen), I finally had a chance to sit down and crank out this shirt. It’s a ripoff of an anthropologie shirt that baby adopter Melissa owns. Hers is made of a more lightweight fabric and has cute little cap sleeves. I wanted a winter version.
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I got this fabric at the beginning of summer at the Fabric Depot outdoor sale. It’s a double-layer knit and is very cozy and warm. It is also on the thick side, which makes it kind of oddly clingy and made the placket a bit of a bear to deal with. The workmanship is not so great, but it is comfortable and casual, and hey, that’s my style (if you can even call it a style). I dig the mini ruffle.
On a different note, yeah, my brother got me a bunch of pens in Japan, but I just placed a substantial order with my beloved JetPens. I don’t really know what is wrong with me, but I do come from a long line of hoarders. Maybe that’s it.

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13 Responses to finally

  1. Emma says:

    Your shirt looks great, cute buttons!
    We’re the other way round now, more light and more conducive for photos, it’s great, but I’m not looking forward to hot weather >_

  2. Michelle says:

    Wow. That looks so comfortable and totally stylish. Knits totally freak me out, so far I can only achieve nice sewing results with 100% quilters cottons…

  3. jennifer says:

    love the shirt! let’s see the pens! i LOVE JetPens. I have you to thank for my own new addiction to large quantities of JePens. My husband says thanks alot… ha ha

  4. Tesia says:

    Tsk. My colleagues call me boring but that’s kinda what I would wear too.
    If I ever attempted to make one it’d probably be too warm before I even finish it

  5. sil says:

    Freaking adorable! Nice work on sewing up that knit, I usually end up wonky on my seams.

  6. Seanna Lea says:

    Pens for everyone!
    I love seeing all of the pens. It’s like living vicariously through bloggerdom (sadly, my holiday knitting budget ate my buy pens budget).

  7. amy k. says:

    nice shirt! and yum on the kisses. do you have any left?

  8. yuan says:

    tiny ruffle rocks…sadly my evil job has blocked flickr so I am unable to check you out regularly and avoid working as much as I would like, but glad to see that you have returned to the sewing machine.
    I understand the pen hoarding, but have you lost any yet? That’s my personal fear of carrying nice pens around…

  9. arawa says:

    nice shirt!

  10. fiona says:

    great top i love the colour, as for the pens um is there such a place as pen hoarders anyonamous?

  11. Jennifer says:

    You are a genius with that machine. This is simply adorable.

  12. JustaRabbit says:

    Love this shirt! and it seems perfected fitted to you (in a not-super tight, good way). Is double-layer knit hard to work with?

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