WIPs gettting finished: the asymetrical 'dignified lady' pullover

 

We last looked at this in 2019

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2019/04/bride-of-dignified-pullover-collar.html

and before then

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-bride-of-dignified-pullover-garment.html

And finally resolving it, well 85% resolved

 I've been meaning to resolve this shirt, and I finally broke down and (mostly) finished it

The cuffs aren't done, and the hem was so uneven because I left some parts off, and I just got annoyed with the whole thing and shoved it in a drawer. And kinda wore it now and then?

Enough to put a name tag so I could identify the back and the front

I broke down and bought ribbing that mostly matches 

and made a big foldover band that goes all the way around

Has a drop at one corner

I did not spend a lot of time sewing this, the stitching in the ditch is sub par

Inside back

Inside front

Right side out front

It goes with the mushroom planet colors of my workplace

Behold, the Recital Hall Bathroom at Benaroya Hall.

I match the entire color palette for the whole building.

"Taupe on toast"

I have not finished the cuffs, but I had lots of homework and a deadline to finish four more pants and three more dress hems. And since I have worn this to work a couple of times and no one has said anything, I'm going to let them be for the moment.

But at least I had time to post this.

Kwik Sew folded and I missed it?

 I did not know this, from October 2021

https://d.facebook.com/coscraft/photos/a.202459063109082/4567919433229668/?type=3&source=48

Ten years ago, things were different with them. A lot happened in the meantime.

 https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2012/02/09/mccalls-and-kwik-sew-join-forces

 Uh, yes, the author does ignore Stretch and Sew (https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2015/08/20/ann-person-sewing-entrepreneur-dies-at-age-90) but this is about Martensson, not the industry.

I have been paying attention to the commercial pattern industry, but I have a full time job and classes and that hemming gig so I have let my attention wander. I did read this piece when it went up, which sums up the state of the commercial pattern industry at the time. I didn't bother with the comments at the time.

https://craftindustryalliance.org/css-industries-including-big-4-pattern-companies-acquired-by-design-group/

This article and the comments are worth reading if you haven't already; it touches on the snobbery of the indie fans and the nostalgia for a sewist's golden era (which for some of us was in the first era of Stretch And Sew and doubleknit, now known as ponte) but there's some good info buried in there (go to the end of the comments)(oh my god I'm in there)

and a little about Martensson herself

https://www.asg.org/files/hall/2006_Martensson.pdf