T shirt mark one

Deeply involved in my own little world of things that make sense probably only to me I decided to expand my men's sewing repetoire to include T-shirts. (To see how menswear is really done check out Mainely dad.)

Since my birthday boy left to work setting up a wind farm in Texas, Friday I decided I needed to make him a shirt in this knit . It is supposed to represent something to do with the electricity of the NYC subway and I wanted to say, this is the next thing you have to take off the grid.

Art Gallery knits are first class and really cool fabric patterns.

 Nothing really exciting about this project except that I used a Jalie in a larger size than recommended and cut down the neckline, and that I wasn't happy with my cover hem tunnelling so cut off about 1 inch and then sewed the hem on my regular machine with a zig zag (time was running out).

My son liked it except he would have liked this shirt an inch longer.

Wouldn't we all.

At any rate I am going to scope out more of these knits for myself. You can try Fabric.com or my personal favourite source because of the breathtakingly good service Hawthorne Threads.

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