Shirt photos

Since I don't have anything to show yet for 2015 and an ironing board cover really doesn't count, I'm posting the only things I made last year.  Three tops/shirts from online somewhere, all of which have been worn repeatedly.

This one you have already seen but the photo shows more of the fabric - I can't tell you how silly I feel standing in front of a blank wall trying to take a picture of myself!  Maybe everyone feels the same?   Number 1:

I should have pulled the bottom down a bit - but didn't in any of the shirts.  Number 2:

Another with the bottom hiked up - I got tickled thinking about posing for photos!  And, finally, number 3:

As I put these on for the posing session, I realized how much I have learned just by reading your posts and looking at pictures.  I know now that I have some fitting issues that have to be dealt with - I never learned fitting in home ec classes in the dark ages.  I think we took a few measurements, bought a pattern and fabric, cut it out, sewed it up and wore it!  The shoulder is a little wide in all of these and I can't believe it but some wrinkles indicate a full bust adjustment is needed.  ME, needing a
FBA - amazing!  Sort of poor fit or not, I have loved these tops.  We travel a lot and they are wonderful to ball up in tiny spaces in the suitcase, never wrinkle, dry overnight and are comfortable no matter the weather.  I have yardage for several more but will search for a better pattern than what I cobbled together!

New neck

I think the title is rather appropriate since looking at the photos I took, I need a new neck!  Oh well, aging does present some things that probably shouldn't be photographed.  Re-doing that neck band was a pain in the patootie - I managed to stretch the neck with all the ripping and pressing but the neck band is on!  Not perfect but neither am I!  The shirt was made by measuring and tracing an existing RTW and cutting a pattern as best I could (first try at self drafting)  It sort of turned out ok, except for the wonky neck and has been worn and washed many times.  I'm not totally happy with my pattern - have been looking at some of Maria Denmark's knit shirt patterns and I think I will try one of those for the next one.  Here is the mostly corrected neck and it is an improvement.

On to more sorting, decluttering and sort of cleaning that sewing space.
Later . . . 

Lack of progress

Here it is almost mid-March and no sewing has been done!  I have a before picture of a shirt I made last year with a wonky neck - I have since ripped the neck band off but not sewn it back on yet.  I hope that it will improve - I've been watching Marcy and Katherine Tilton's class on Craftsy and paying close attention to adding the neckband.

Goodness, wonky doesn't even do it justice!  And I've been wearing it like that?  Ugh!  

In all fairness to myself I'm still trying to get the room put back together.  No, it isn't a studio, it is a bedroom that I have claimed for my "Stuff."  Things were rearranged before Christmas and never put back together, so the past 10 days have been full of company, sorting, and just trying to find the bottom in there.  Progress with a new neck and more sewing soon!

Later . . .