What we've got are a couple warm tunics with raw-edge hems.
Last time we went to San Angelo, it was cold, and so all I looked at were things to keep me warm. These are perfect--warm, not too heavy, big enough to layer over a long-sleeved t-shirt. Each has a pocket, which is A Very Good Thing (not as good as two pockets, but, hey)
While I love raw edges, I absolutely loathe hems that roll up. Seriously: it drives me nuts. So I have to figure out a way to fix them--and I almost typed "weigh to fix them," which is apt because adding a little weight is the easiest way.
So what I did today was to cut strips of t-shirts--a burnt-ish orange for the brick red tunic, a bright red for the orange one (because I have a couple jackets I wear, one bright orange corduroy (L.L. Bean, cheap from Goodwill because it had a couple tiny rust stains on the front, which of course dyed perfectly), the other an XXL brick-red suede that laundered up like butter)--that I'll use on the bottom, doing the Alabama Chanin fold-over with a Cretan stitch. I won't do the sleeves because I wear them rolled up, as you can see. I might do the neckline on the red one--I'll have to see how I'll wear it and if the neck will flap over, in which case the wrong side of the binding would show, and it's ugly--the back of the Cretan stitch is not a thing of beauty.
On the red one, I'll cut off that cutesy knot on the pocket--it's different, but it just flops around and gets in the way, and it's a little too twee for me. Then I'll bind the top of the pocket. I'll have to replace the buttons, too--too small and plain, even though they aren't plastic (they've those ubiquitous shell ones).
So that's what I'll be working on this evening--got the binding cut and folded, pressed and rolled. Now to pin it in place and then stitch~~
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Gimme, Gimme,,,,I want to seeee it finished! Please! Is this something I can make? dix--
you are a genius!
lovin those finds, yum
Great right now, will be even better when you have worked your magic.
Darla
I love those colours - yum. And I may have a way of doing the neck if you like the flop-over look: Work out where the natural flop is, make your last stitch and then go through to the other side. And perhaps it may be possible to do the last couple of stitches so they don't go through every layer of fabric and do the same with the first couple of stitches on the other side so they overlap. A possibility?
Love Curly!
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