{"id":6137,"date":"2013-08-29T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2013-08-29T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:32:07","slug":"sewing-for-me-so-so-tees-its-about-the-scarf-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=6137","title":{"rendered":"Sewing for Me: So-So Tees (it’s about the scarf, really)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whenever I work on putting these Thursday outfit posts together, I feel very self-conscious and sort of ridiculous as I go through dozens and dozens of pictures of myself. I wish I could be blas\u00e9, but I’m really not. It’s so very out of character for me to do this. The other night a friend invited me to an event and I ran into someone who told me she reads my blog. I was surprised and turned bright, bright red, and all eyes at the table were on me. Immediately, I thought of these awkward photos plastered all over the place and I wanted to whip out my ipad to delete the posts.<\/p>\n

But the moment passed, and no one gave a fig newton about my blog (though the woman who reads my blog was very kind).<\/p>\n

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And I have to say, I am<\/em> much more comfortable in front of the camera now, and I like being able to look back on all the things I’ve been sewing\/creating for myself. It’s fun to see the progress (if any) I’m making, the successes and failures and everything in between. And these tops I made are smack-dab in the “in between” category.<\/p>\n

So let’s talk about that. I used\u00a0Butterick 5335<\/a>\u00a0for these simple, raglan tees. They aren’t knocking my socks off and a lot of it has to do with the dreaded waviness at the hems that I couldn’t iron out (I tried, oh I tried). Still, I don’t think they’re horrible. They’re just not all that great.<\/p>\n

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I made the navy one first and used some tissue weight jersey knit with lovely drape. The curse of the crazy long torso resulted in basically a cropped top, and I wore my high-waisted jeans (aka: my mom jeans) reminiscent of the 70s in order to avoid flashing you with my belly. See the waviness at the sleeve and bottom hem? Shudder.<\/p>\n

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Of course, I could have used wonder tape or other clever tricks to avoid the undulating hems, but could I be bothered? No, I just decided to add my favorite scarf to hide my lackluster tee.<\/p>\n

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I do like the raglan style and it’s so fast to sew, I decided to try another. I didn’t have much of the pink knit, and according to the bit of paper stapled to it, it’s a Michael Levine fabric. Super soft, very comfortable, really<\/em> stretchy. I didn’t have enough for the sleeves, so I dug through my scraps and found the coral stripes I used for this top here<\/a>. I kept my fingers crossed that it would look cute.<\/p>\n

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It’s kinda sorta cute, I guess. I opened up the neckline and added about five inches to the length and now it’s a little too long, methinks. And nope, still couldn’t get the waviness under control…<\/p>\n

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So again, let’s hide behind the scarf. The scarf. The moment I saw it last winter in a darling little boutique, I knew we were meant to be together. It’s a cotton\/acrylic blend, and I usually avoid anything with acrylic – however, this is the softest, most versatile scarf I’ve ever owned. It’s basically a mini blanket\/pashmina (without the luxe pashmina fiber content). It matches pretty much everything in my wardrobe, which, I guess if you only own neutral colors like I do, isn’t such a rare occurrence.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, it’s my fave. And I think the scarf may elevate the ho-hum tees to an acceptable level. What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever I work on putting these Thursday outfit posts together, I feel very self-conscious and sort of ridiculous as I go through dozens and dozens of pictures of myself. I wish I could be blas\u00e9, but I’m really not. It’s so very out of character for me to do this. The other night a friend invited me to an event and I ran into someone who told me she reads my blog. I was surprised and turned bright, bright red, and all eyes at the table were on me. Immediately, I thought of these awkward photos plastered all over the place and I wanted to whip out my ipad to delete the posts. But the moment passed, and no one gave a fig newton about my blog (though the woman who reads my blog was very kind). And I have to say, I am much more comfortable in front of the camera now, and I like being able to look back on all the things I’ve been sewing\/creating for myself. It’s fun to see the progress (if any) I’m making, the successes and failures and everything in between. And these tops I made are smack-dab in the “in between” category. So let’s talk about that. I used\u00a0Butterick 5335\u00a0for these simple, raglan tees. They aren’t knocking my socks off and a lot of it has to do with the dreaded waviness at the hems that I couldn’t iron out (I tried, oh I tried). Still, I don’t think they’re horrible. They’re just not all that great. I made the navy one first and used some tissue weight jersey knit with lovely drape. The curse of the crazy long torso resulted in basically a cropped top, and I wore my high-waisted jeans (aka: my mom jeans) reminiscent of the 70s in order to avoid flashing you with my belly. See the waviness at the sleeve and bottom hem? Shudder. Of course, I could have used wonder tape or other clever tricks to avoid the undulating hems, but could I be bothered? No, I just decided to add my favorite scarf to hide my lackluster tee. I do like the raglan style and it’s so fast to sew, I decided to try another. I didn’t have much of the pink knit, and according to the bit of paper stapled to it, it’s a Michael Levine fabric. Super soft, very comfortable, really stretchy. I didn’t have enough for the sleeves, so I dug through my scraps and found the coral stripes I used for this top here. I kept my fingers crossed that it would look cute. It’s kinda sorta cute, I guess. I opened up the neckline and added about five inches to the length and now it’s a little too long, methinks. And nope, still couldn’t get the waviness under control… So again, let’s hide behind the scarf. The scarf. The moment I saw it last winter in a darling little boutique, I knew we were meant to be together. It’s a cotton\/acrylic blend, and I usually avoid anything with acrylic – however, this is the softest, most versatile scarf I’ve ever owned. It’s basically a mini blanket\/pashmina (without the luxe pashmina fiber content). It matches pretty much everything in my wardrobe, which, I guess if you only own neutral colors like I do, isn’t such a rare occurrence. Anyway, it’s my fave. And I think the scarf may elevate the ho-hum tees to an acceptable level. What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sewing","7":"category-sewing-for-me","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}