No sooner had I made this little T-shirt than she was putting it on and heading off for the day with her granny.
I'm sure I've said it before but she is a cartwheel fiend and is upside down as least as often as she is right way up. Well, she turned a cartwheel onto a stick and tore the t-shirt, coming home with a gash along her tummy and a hole in her clothes.
I found a cute little scrap of knit fabric that colour matched well and made a patch:
To look more like a design feature and less like it's covering a hole I probably should have added some extra little hearts but I couldn't be bothered. It's fixed.
The pattern is the Oliver + S School Bus T-Shirt with my own V neck modification. It works really well and I can't believe it's been a few years since I last did it. Here's the link to the tutorial if your curious: https://oliverands.com/community/blog/2015/06/v-neck-metro-t-shirt-tutorial.html
I made the size 6 width with 7 length, adding another 3cm to the sleeves - they still look a bit short to me. Sigh.
And it turned out I did something weird with the body length as my back panel ended up longer than my front panel. Not to worry, I just made some side splits and kept the uneven hem length. I asked her to show me the side splits for a photo....
Not quite what I meant kiddo
That's better, thanks.
This fabric has been hanging out in the stash for a very long time and is the last of what I used for the very first knit sewing I ever did, way back in 2012
We're off to the beach next week and if you follow me on Instagram you'd know there's a whole new batch of swimwear to photograph. If you're not on Instagram (and fair enough) then you would have missed what we got up to this Easter weekend....
We entered my dad's car in the country town Easter parade again. This year as a chicken
...and here was last year's entry as a rabbit
He wants to sell it, but I have at least two more ideas for Easter parade car costumes so here's hoping that doesn't work out! :)
Hope you all had a lovely Easter. See you after the holidays!
Nice mending job! Looks like an intentional design element. And I think her interpretation of 'split' is great!!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's along time since I've bothered to patch anything, they're usually outgrown, but this was only worn once (crying)!
DeleteA great fix and so glad that it was only a tummy scratch. What happened to the tail for the chicken?
ReplyDeleteTHanks Sharon. The chicken did get a cute little tail, I just didn't manage a good photo of it. It was a bit like the comb, only smaller and white. The kids came up with a funny solution for the car being a Koala, and koalas not having tails: we could put a toy koala on the back like a baby hanging onto mum.
DeleteLovely job with the mending. And I love those 'side splits'! Your dad definitely CAN'T sell that car until you've exhausted all your Easter parade ideas - I'm looking forward to seeing them!
ReplyDeleteThanks Marisa, I'd say I'll keep going as long as the car does, but there's the rub.... the little car can't do two laps of town without conking out and needing a push. I had to start it with the hand crank this year and that's a serious workout!
DeleteI had a stash of badges, ribbons and buttons, solely for patching and re-purposing tshirts. Past tense, as my now-teens are too sophisticated. They wouldn't dream of doing anything that would injure their dignity!
ReplyDeleteha ha, I'm not sure my kids will inherit dignity from either side, but I'm sure they'll manage to effect it in their teenage years. I know one day I'll not meet their minimum cool levels.... (and then they can get part time jobs, buy their own clothes and I'll have all the time to sew for me!)
DeleteI really like the accidental high-low side split. Good save!
ReplyDeleteThanks Katy, no idea what happened there, but I agree, it works!
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