I can apparently make anything difficult.

[robinsnest]

I ripped all the pieces out for Rob's shirt day before yesterday. I'm actually hand sewing his shirt because I used my fancy linen and I only want to make him ONE shirt so if I make him a nice handsewn outfit later I'll want him to have a nice shirt. The polyester suit will be machine sewn but this I'm doing by hand. It's somehow mandie_rw's fault. Not exactly sure why, but all handsewn underwear is her fault.

The first thing I usually do is sew the square gussets to the sleeves. Not hard right? well apparently I'm special. I sewed both gussets on then realize I sewed the second one on the wrong edge, holding up the 1st one I thought it was wrong too so I unpicked them both. sewed the 1st one on the other edge...held it up...NOW it's wrong..unpick again...sew again. so FIVE times to sew two stupid little squares to the correct side of a rectangle. The next step is to cut the neck slit and I'm NOT doing anything un-fixable tonight so I think I'll pull out the pattern for his waistcoat and jacket and just cut out the tissue pieces. I have to make muslins from them tomorrow. 

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[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

I shall take any and all blame for handsewn underwear! xD

And don't worry; I'm SO dumb about the sleeve gussets...90% of the underwear-y things I've made have had the gussets sewn in wrong the first time. And the second time. It really should not be that difficult! But it is. Because gussets ARE STUPID.