Hello Needle Work Monday friends! I'm happy to be back to here after a while with my new linen shirt I finished last weekend.
Last year I sewed a shirt with a linen fabric. I really liked its comfy simple casual style and wore it a lot over the summer.
Summer shirt made from a summer dress
Since the fabric was from my old dress and I wore both frequently, it got a hole in the end of the season ...
I wanted to sew another linen shirt and seeing fabric for a while. I found and bought one at one of my favorite fabric stores in the town. But after I washed it before sewing, I noticed that it can be too thick for a shirt at least for the one I sewed last year 😅
I changed my plant to make more like a pullover style one. I took out my favorite sewing book that is specific to sewing linen clothes.
It worked well ... just I bought the fabric too tightly so the sleeves are a bit shorter than the one on the book. It's OK, it's summer and that's sewing 😉
I wear a tank top underneath but it can be also worn as it is in the hot summer time. Or I can wear long sleeve shirt in spring/autumn.
I'm glad that I could find the way to use the linen fabric and have a new comfy linen shirt.
I still look for a thinner linen fabric to sew the one I made last year though. I wonder where I can by my dream linen or linen-cotton fabric. I saw some stores reduced the variety of fabric they have at their real stores. Probably because people buy more online. Even I visited a quite large fabric store, I couldn't find any ...
I ordered some samples from an organic fabric shop where I frequented visited when I was living in Berlin. This shop was closed after the COVID-19 and is now only an online shop. But I appreciate that they continue online.
Siebenblau - Dein Shop für Bio-Stoffe, GOTS-zertifiziert
That's my Needle Work Monday. Happy Needle Work Monday & have a great week 🌻
昨年、リネンのワンピースをシャツに作り替えて、デザインと着心地とても気に入って毎日のように着ていたら、シーズンの終わりには裾に穴が開いてしまいました 😅
Summer shirt made from a summer dress / 新しい夏のシャツを作りました
古い布だったのでしかたないのですが、悲しい＆あんなシャツを今年も着たい！ということで作ることにしました。
生地屋さんで生地を買ってきて、縫う前に洗ってみるとなんだか生地厚いぞ・・・・・・・・・・・😱 買う時にちょっとそんな気もしていたんです。ということで、計画変更、もうちょっとプルオーバーっぽい感じのシャツを作ることにしました。
数年来のお気に入りの『FLW sewing & styling』というリネンの洋裁本を出してきて、デザインをぱらぱらみているといい感じのデザインがありました。頼りになる一冊です。
私は毎度ぎりぎりの長さで生地を買ってパズルのようにして裁断するので、本に掲載されているものよりもやや袖が短くなってしまいました。でも夏だしかえってよかったかもしれません。
朝晩冷えるのでタンクトップを下に着ていますが、夏は一枚で、春と秋には下に長袖のシャツを着てプルオーバー的に着られそうです。
布を無駄にすることなくほっと一息、できにも満足していますが、薄手のリネンのシャツもほしいです。でも理想の布になかなか出会えません。オンラインで布を買う人が増えているのか、生地屋さんによっては品揃えが激減しています。週末に多分市内で一番大きな生地屋さんを見に行ったものの、理想の生地には出会えず。
ベルリンに住んでいた時に足しげく通っていたオーガニックの生地屋さんにいくつかサンプルを注文してみました。このお店もコロナ禍を経て閉店してオンラインショップだけになってしまったんですよね 😢
Siebenblau - Dein Shop für Bio-Stoffe, GOTS-zertifiziert
そんなこんなの久しぶりの針仕事の月曜日の投稿でした。みなさんいい一週間を！
I like the color of the linen,the tops fits you well and I think that I kinda like the short hand of your top compared to the one in the picture am not sure I have sewn any linen materials before but shopping online can sometimes be great too.
Well done dear @akipponn 💕❤💖💃💃
Thanks monica! Happy to read so :) It's interesting that you don't sew linen even you have a hotter climate than that in Germany. Linen clothes are must for me to survive German summer without an air conditioner ... ;)
You are right.
Enjoy your week.
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I like the feel of linen fabric on the skin as they are so smooth and tender, your shirt looks beautiful. Well done.
Yeees, me too! Especially it's really comfy in summer time. Thank you for the comment, @glorydee!
Lovely linen shirt!!! And the colour you picked is awesome:)
But the book, looks very inspiring ...those kind of simple and beautiful aesthetics😍
Happy to receive complement from Needlework Queen kesityu! I like your this week's gold dress too.
The book is really nice. The clothes on the book are something we never see at stores. Good reason to make them 😁
Looks like we both got inspired by the goldish tones😊
Thank you😍
(yes they really are, and yet so "simple", thats probably what makes a good design:))
Your top is beautiful and very free on you, you've made a right choice of style using your linen fabric. Thanks for sharing @akipponn
Thanks @bimpcy! I'm glad that I could make something nice out of the fabric, which I felt initially quite thick. Sewing is full of nice surprises 😉
That looks quite comfortable, really! Do you know if the book is available in English? I have a friend who likes to sew and often uses linen cloth, so I'd like to tell her about the book - but only if she can read it!
It's really comfortable especially for the upcoming hot summer. It seems the sewing books are available in Europe too for example on Etsy but it's in Japanese. I must say she can understand it from charts and photos.
https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/288779619/flw-sewing-and-styling-outfits
(The shipping cost is quite expensive ... I wish if I were your and her neighbor ...!)