Its very like a football shirt.........

and its got a hole in the collar... which doesn't fit on the neckline. But luckily its only a muslin. This is what happens when you determine that you will use up small bits of fabric I suppose. The hole in the collar is the result of incompetent serger handling skills, the inability to fit the collar to the neckline is due to cutting the collar piece with the stretch going the wrong way. I'm not above admitting to holes and rookie mistakes. Personally, I like to hear that things go wrong for people. Its not that I actually wish things to go wrong... I really don't. Its more that it makes me feel better about my own errors. So, in case others are similarly afflicted with a desire to see all that can go wrong, I try and offer up a few disasters to make those readers feel better. I don't offer them all up, that would be a bit depressing, but some is good. It strikes a balance.

The pattern is Vogue 8670 and should have buttons to close the neckline. There is a lot of stretching required to get the collar onto the neckline so when it says four way stretch knit, it really does mean that. Despite the rather inauspicious beginning, I really think this has a lot of potential as a pattern. I was surprised to find that all that stretching really did make a neckline that fit my neck well, though it was difficult to ease the neck evenly and a few puckers resulted. The collar is actually a straight rectangle and I had many concerns that this would not result in a garment that looked like the drawing. But it did work. Must be all that stretching. I have slight reservations about its resemblance to a dentist's scrub top when the buttons are on, but we shall see. I think that problem could be resolved if necessary, by having an invisible closure rather than buttons so that the opening is not as obvious, or loop closures (though I really don't fancy making loops from jersey). Next version is going to be in red bamboo jersey, if I ever find time to cut the thing out.

Work has been mad for the last two weeks, which is very unusual. I am certainly not complaining about being busy, it does make a very welcome change but it does cut into the sewing time. Next week I will be starting a course for work, which is going to further restrict my sewing time and there may not be quite so many blog posts if the course proves very challenging. On the other hand, the urge to distract myself from my inability to do my homework might well result in more posts. When I was doing my degree (part time evenings) the standing joke was that the only time my study group had really clean houses, dust free skirting boards, no laundry pile and a clean car, was when an essay was due.