Big tops continued: I do love a big collar

Buy the sweatshirt, take the ride.
$18.99 at Target, I loved the fabric and was tired of not finding sweatshirt fabric in the right weight, and am not close enough to a Value Village to go shop to alter/dye.

cut off lower band, trimmed up 1.5 " for heavy straight hem.

I thought ahead and made a pattern of the armsceye that the sleeve fit into

and i remembered to shorten it a little as I would lose a little in sewing a new seam (the seam would be shorter

trimmed off the excess, also opened up the side seam for easier sleeve insertion

put in the sleeve

just fits. didn't like the original collar.

Courtesy of my sister in law at Sears, I have a second maniquin/dress form. Several sizes smaller than me, but that's useful for other things so leaving it alone. 

The shirt on the right needs a new collar, and it is HUGE, so it's partly here to look at and think about, and also for scale.

draped a new spiral collar with the ribbing band from the bottom. I like this version better than the finished result, but I have this process figured out and can do this with another shirt if I want to.

Pinned it out on the form

Letting it roll up, leaving the edge partly undone.

Sleeves are still too long, but that's going to be a different post.

Different shirt but same idea: big collar with a raw edge.

And the same look of 'hmm' and incredulity that I strive for with each project. 

this clearly will continue

More collaged tshirts - what to do with parts of tshirts

Like I said previously, a million times previously, I am working on actual clothing, but work is has been nuts and the UFO and mending pile is easier to deal with than a new thing from scratch. Or a new pattern to alter. And there's more choir hems. 

I stumbled across this photo in my 'ideas' folder while looking for medical records. Isn't that how it always works?

which is from this

https://journal.alabamachanin.com/2019/01/2019-build-a-wardrobe-the-fractal-dress-pattern/

I taped together and am presently staring at this VersitiliTee from way back and.... it's not going to do what I want it to do. It has that solid piece front, with any shaping seams on the back, and while this does appeal to me in that ATATAC origami zerowaste manner, I need seams, my butt is big so I need the hem to be wider, and I just don't want to set in a knit sleeve. Not unless I have to.

I don't like a raglan sleeve - my shoulders have disappeared and I don't like being reminded of that. I want a seam at the top of where they used to be. So I enjoyed widening the bicep on this pattern, but alas not to be. Not a wadder but not for me; and you know about learning from failure by reading this blog.

And I have all these tshirts with images on them I love, and I am not going to make a tshirt quilt. Nope.

This style is just offset enough, the cut just abrupt enough, that i think it might work for collaging a tshirt. 

I had a long sleeve pullover knit similar to the brown shape, and I wore it to death in the late 80s.

So this is where my mind is going with this project these days