tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post9178711680951685944..comments2024-03-22T09:32:48.588-04:00Comments on The Itinerant Seamstress: Striped StrathconaMashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05364861545043732582noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-9388774816579441572016-05-02T08:20:24.315-04:002016-05-02T08:20:24.315-04:00Don't know how I missed this previously! Hone...Don't know how I missed this previously! Honestly, I would have made the placket from a woven. Maybe a bright orange placket....great to see your husband looking well!Janice https://www.blogger.com/profile/15516765600724614193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-38726113740169124842016-05-01T08:13:58.688-04:002016-05-01T08:13:58.688-04:00I like this colour on your husband. Hope he will b...I like this colour on your husband. Hope he will be more enthusiastic about an orange tee :)Jenya @ While she was sleepinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443073685889323191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-85112215505308443212016-04-27T16:49:59.008-04:002016-04-27T16:49:59.008-04:00This looks great, Masha! That placket looks tricky...This looks great, Masha! That placket looks tricky to sew but I must say you can't even see the issues from the photographs here, so I think you were right to call it good enough! I am sooooo glad to see him looking so fit, and I am grateful for his recovery! I think you should shower the man in orange, myself (I do really like orange, it is true). In a loud Hawaiian print, the very slight Inder-ifichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724667602427496583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-6005629174750604692016-04-27T16:15:39.448-04:002016-04-27T16:15:39.448-04:00You're doing better than me, I got fed up tapi...You're doing better than me, I got fed up taping the pattern together some months ago as it's the whole front and the whole back not cut on the fold. It's still abandoned somewhere in my dining room!<br /><br />I winged a placket on a kids onesie recently, I ended up using hemming tape, the double fusible sided interfacing stuff. I folded the placket around it and ironed it in place. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-60737560279841726092016-04-27T08:27:30.071-04:002016-04-27T08:27:30.071-04:00His recovery really has been dramatic. Thank you!...His recovery really has been dramatic. Thank you!Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364861545043732582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-90001025811705285912016-04-27T08:26:23.728-04:002016-04-27T08:26:23.728-04:00Thanks Nicole, that is a good idea. Thanks Nicole, that is a good idea. Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364861545043732582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-23483449595743163952016-04-27T08:25:40.202-04:002016-04-27T08:25:40.202-04:00Thanks, Meg. He is just all-color all the time! ...Thanks, Meg. He is just all-color all the time! I figured one neutral would be a good addition to the wardrobe, ha :)<br />Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364861545043732582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-47383646947107937642016-04-27T08:06:39.132-04:002016-04-27T08:06:39.132-04:00Masha I've had so much trouble with my Bloglov...Masha I've had so much trouble with my Bloglovin feed and missed so much, but how delightful to see your bloke upright, handsome and wearing something you made!<br />I can't help with the shoulder adjustments, but odds are he can redress the imbalance with physio before I could nut out the changes anyway :)<br />Lightning McStitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11955101913822685967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-25739849538782828072016-04-27T07:57:06.321-04:002016-04-27T07:57:06.321-04:00No expert Masha but I would knock up a quicky in a...No expert Masha but I would knock up a quicky in an unwanted knit, with the seams on the outside. Get him to wear it for a bit and then pinch out where it is too big. Recut the seams and then use this as your new pattern.<br />I think the colour suits him, but I get men who like colour. You have seen Jed's choices...motherof5https://www.blogger.com/profile/10195031588051037622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864688565474192425.post-76002328430482430942016-04-27T07:52:32.666-04:002016-04-27T07:52:32.666-04:00Looks great! I like the fabric and think it looks ...Looks great! I like the fabric and think it looks nice on him, but I can understand the need for more! color! The idea of a knit placket like that always made me nervous... that's why I took the easy road for all my Strathcona tees and skipped itMeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14652847699362560462noreply@blogger.com