New Shirts, New Fabrics, Not For Me

 Doug wants a new shirt

Doug went to New York with the bride and they went to Mood

Doug brought home fabrics and buttons.

Took new measurements, they aren't much different than three years ago

and traced off new pattern (because I just can't find the old one) from Simplicity 7030, mixing Small Medium and Large pieces

His wrists are smaller than mine, and he's a foot taller. Go figure.

The other shirt will have the long sleeves and cuffs (roll-up able)

Checking length - I traced the entire pattern this time, for future reference.

 Checking seams on the floor (also walking the armsceye)

Sewing action shots: 

the obligatory sewing the yoke/burrito facing roll

And a partial unfurl

Buttons. I like these better on this shirt, but I'm not the boss here

These are the buttons for the other shirt, but the same size. SO I trimmed one of the buttons down for the collar, just to see if it would work.

I need to reshape the sleeve. It should not tent out like that.

Needs a little more in the back. 

And he seems pretty happy with it.

The black buttons look fine. I will figure out how to work on that sleeve tenting out like that.

If you work with me and were wondering what the entire box of cookies I got for this work had in it:

Because the ex ate half of them overnight before I could bring them all in.

Sweater Remodel Number Christmas

You can alter an intarsia knit sweater. Really.

You pick the seams apart, and it's hard to see and very boring. I unraveled enough of the collar to have enough to sew it back on after altering, and I'm glad I did: yarn has more flex than thread, and why go look for more when I have more right here?

My fashion neck line template, which I thread traced

I did this before with an Edgar Allan Poe sweater from Archie McPhee's and it's held up well. Also lighter so you can see the details better on it than the present project.

The body has a little extra from where I moved the armseye down and did not want to cut into the knit on the vertical. It feels fine with this extra flap in the armpit.

I just trimmed off the cuff and rolled the edge up and secured it. I push my sleeves up a lot, and left cuffs off the sweaters I had knit for myself before.

The Interior of the neck line has held up very well.

And here's the exterior front

The yarn is not cotton. It's also not itchy, and it hasn't shrunk or needed blocking, so it's absolutely perfect.

So here's the shoulder/neckline of Santa Abe in process

And then you cut off the extra. It worked on the Poe, it will work here. I do two rows of stitching before I cut it though.

I am attaching the collar by hand,in this photo picking up the stitches and putting them on a waste yarn in a contrasting color on the open side to tack them down.

Test to make sure it's going to fit over your head

Not quite

...and you can buy your own....

https://mcphee.com/collections/clothing-accessories/products/santa-lincoln-sweater

or

https://mcphee.com/collections/clothing-accessories/products/edgar-allan-poe-sweater