Idk, Idc

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
paperandpencilsandskips
sleepnoises

the front panels of a button up shirt cut out of embroidered floral tulle and overlapped such that the embroidery pattern is continuousALT
the halves no longer overlapped so that the individual button bands are visibleALT
the back of a button band; the front is a pale pink that shows through the tulle, but the back is multicolored small floral printALT

due to factors such as "time pressure" and "tulle is of the devil" my expectations for this shirt are not high. but i spent a lot of time imagining these button bands and they turned out pretty nice

sleepnoises

The back piece of a shirt made from floral tulle. The yoke (fitted part around neck and shoulders) has five panels, the seams of which are very visible because the tulle is layered multiple times.ALT
A collar, not attached to a shirt. It has cut out bits of the tulle with embroidered leaves on them stuck to it.ALT
Close photo of the collar, fake-attached to a shirt on a person, held on with a pinch to the front. The person is also wearing a green blazer.ALT

progress on this includes:

  • attached the back and the yoke; did the yoke with wonky little panels for reinforcement(?), as it's not double-layered, and for a fun symmetrical piecing moment
  • attached fronts to back at shoulders (not pictured)
  • constructed a collar and collar stand and arranged Leafs upon it
  • started hand stitching down leafs. it would be more elegant to do this before assembling the collar, but i can't visualize how both the seam allowances and the crease in the collar work + the tulle is itchy if misplaced

have yet to do sleeves, side seams, finishing hand stitching on collar, attaching collar, sleeve plackets (on tulle??), cuffs, Buttonholes (evil to me)

sleepnoises

Tulle shirt with floral embroidery hanging backlit in a windowALT

Shirt's done except for finishing the collar handstitching & touching up some of the buttonholes (used a friend's fancy machine with varying success). Lots of things wrong with it that are hard to see from more than three feet away

No pictures of it on me because I have yet to obtain a suitable layering piece which is a really funny problem to have!

closeup of green button sewn with orange threadALT
closeup of green button sewn with light green threadALT
closeup of green button sewn with pink threadALT

buttons!!!!!!

sleepnoises

Finished the collar! If you want to make embroidery you cut out of some tulle look like it is On There For Real this is what I did

  • roughly cut out and place embroidery. baste with glue stick (glue sticks to the back of the embroidery and not the tulle)
  • tack it down with a color matched running stitch (or whatever) along the stems and centers
  • cut off more tulle from the edges with tinier scissors
  • tack down the edges. with, in this case, a different thread color, do a faux chain stitch where you grab the very end of a stitch from the extant embroidery
  • like so
needle poking up through fabric a little beyond one of the stitches on the tulleALT
needle poked through the end of a stitch on the tulleALT
needle returning to the hole it came out ofALT
finished stitchALT

this has the benefit of kind of squashing down any tulle that didn't get trimmed

Shirt collar with embroidered fern-like leaves stitched to itALT

and now it moves with the fabric and doesn't stick up at the edges!

sleepnoises

a white person with short brown hair taking a selfie in a mirror, wearing the shirt described in the rest of the post over a tank top and tucked into green suit pantsALT
same person still selfie-ing, now additionally wearing the suit jacket that goes with the pantsALT

hey great news. i look charming in it

attackpunk
psychotic-gerard

do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

:) rising transphobia and gender freedom/feminism stuff rolling backwards are not unrelated y’all