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An olive green Saraste shirt

This is actually a Very Wearable Muslin for another shirt I’ll go into later, but for now, just know that this is yet another Named Saraste Shirt, from their first book, “Breaking the Pattern” (which has mysteriously disappeared from their website for some reason?).

The Saraste might tie with Closet Core’s Pietra in my “Most Made Patterns That Aren’t FehrTrade” stakes! I’ve made the dress variation twice (1st & 2nd), the top version twice (1st and 2nd), and the shirt once before. But this time I needed a bigger size (size 9, the largest!!) so I had a fresh version printed in A0.

The looming face of Lestat on a teeshirt

I keep saying each Interview with the Vampire The Vampire Lestat teeshirt is “going to be my last for a while” but I keep being tempted by new designs! But this time, it really will be the last teeshirt for a while (mumbles something about sewing a replica designer blouse seen in the S3 teaser instead…)

The designs on this shirt are from the set of The Vampire Lestat (IWTV season 3’s new show name) that’s filming right now – extras going to the in-universe gigs were wearing teeshirts with this Lestat head motif on the front, and tour dates on the back – in addition to the shirt with the hands that I’ve already made! So of course I had to complete my set and make this one too!

A minty fresh Thorndike Tank

Sometimes I plan my sewing in advance. Other times, I see a pattern or a fabric and I just instantly want to make it. I can’t even say exactly what it was about the Thorndike Tank (the Cashmerette Club pattern for July) – it’s just a basic woven shell top, really – but when it dropped it just felt right to sew it.

It didn’t hurt that I had the perfect fabric already in my stash – 1.5m of Mind the Maker “Splash” viscose in Mint, bought from the Village Haberdashery (RIP) in June 2020 for £30.