I've gotten totally distracted.
A friend of mine and I got into a discussion awhile back about the Wiksten Tova shirt/dress pattern. Mostly about how 80% of them need FBA's. But, anyway . . . I have Simplicity 7627 (1976), which is pretty much the same idea:
And I figured I'd wing it. This is my size so I don't even need to do a lot of altering (in theory). I measured and then added 1 1/2 inches across the back, with shoulder darts to take it up again at the shoulder seams.
This is a I-hope-it's-wearable muslin so I used some old (it's 35 inches wide, so it's no newer than early 1970's) cotton-but-mostly-poly "chambray" stripe that I got from my great-aunt Marian's stuff after my great-uncle passed away.
I wish this were cotton so it would be a nice texture, but it's not. Oh, well. It was free. Destashing and all.
The stripe doesn't have a symmetrical repeat so I had to seam down the middles of both the back and the front:
and:
. . . which will make it even stiffer and weirder. But whatever. If it even sort-of works I have other, softer, nicer fabric to use.
I was in a textile frenzy this weekend. I probably sacrificed a bunch of old T-shirts to an experiment. It turns out that De-Solv-It (an orange oil solvent/cleaner) does take deodorant build-up out of fabric, but then you're left with the problem of getting the orange oil out. It's sort of the Caddyshack gopher-hunting approach. So . . . yeah, it "worked" but I don't recommend it.
Anyway, then I threw 2 1/2 yards of muslin in the washer with one box of Rit Tangerine and one bottle of Rit Scarlet. This gives you a bright papaya red:
I'll try that next if this pattern fits at all.
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