The past few months have been all about sewing for the men in my life. Friends were up first with a shirt for the
Hunter and a custom quilt for the
Musician. It was time to turn that attention onto the most deserving man in my life; Husband. Here we are in NYC on top of the Empire State Building a few years ago (before Baby J - look how relaxed and refreshed we are!)
While making the shirt for the Hunter I kept thinking 'why aren't I doing this for Hubby too?' So I decided to make him a shirt; but his shirt was going to be a Pendelton Woolen Mills shirt for Christmas. Yummy, yummy $15/yard (on rement!) wool. So I bought the fabric (easy) found a pattern (kinda easy) and started the shirt (not so easy!). Christmas passed...no shirt. Then the
Finish Along at Quilter in the Gap started and I knew this shirt was going to get done. But wait! His February birthday passed...no shirt. Uh, oh it was getting close, and after a few mishaps I wanted to throw it back in the UFO pile! But I didn't I kept at it and finally it happened.
Hooray! A finish! This shirt was not difficult to make, but it was hard to fit. I wanted Hubby to have a custom shirt, the right length (his torso is shorter than most) and the right style (he's under stated to say the least).
I embroiderer his initials on the pocket and even used my automatic button hole AND sewed the buttons on with the Viking for the first time. Both worked super and saved a lot of time. No fear of those features anymore!
The last details of the shirt took some time. I'd sew a few steps of the pattern and then put it down waiting for a time when I was 'fresh' to start. Staying away from late night pattern sewing....I've learned my lesson there. It just leads to seam ripping in the morning! The color of the wool is hard to tell, but it's a cross weave of blue and black which makes sense that the pics are blue and black!
Happy to have it finished......it was more a labor of love for me than for Hubby. He likes it and all but I really don't think it's that big of a deal for him! Ah, sewing for me. I mean men.
Cheers!
Kelly
ps. Rhonda find my original post about this shirt
here.
