The modern gift guide for our 14th anniversary suggested Ivory or gold jewellery and seeing he doesn't wear any jewellery I put my thinking cap on regarding Ivory. Luckily I remembered that I had some Ivory Bamboo Interlock purchased in 2009 from The Bamboo Fabric Store in my stash which would work perfectly for another Strathcona Henley, maybe the t-shirt with short sleeves this time.
My next quandary was how to make it not so plain and then remembered Mark had a purchased t-shirt from Japan back in 2005 which was looking very sad, but had a tone-on-tone embroidered skier on it.
Now how to do this as I don't have an embroidery machine, but this is where talking to your sewing buddies is great, Alison volunteered to do this for me.
So I headed over to Great Designs and purchased a skier design for Alison to use on her machine. It took Alison a few test runs with different threads to get the skier to look like I had imagined, and we ended up using Mettler No 703.
The only adjustment I made to the pattern was to lower the front neckline by 2cm.
And to make the t-shirt look more RTW I dug out some white twill tape and stitched it around the back neckline like Mark's RTW t-shirts.
Mark is very pleased with this t-shirt, it has had a lot of wears already.
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2015 Stash Out: 25.55 m
2015 Stash In: 32.8 m
13 comments:
Awesome!
That looks lovely. You have done such a great job. Oooh, I think I need a friend with an embroidery machine. I love the same colour on same colour. It looks very upmarket.
Gorgeous! I love tone on tone embroidery. So interesting to see a male version.
What a lovely present - the top itself looks very nice, and how thoughtful and organised you are to think of the special embroidered ski-er and to enlist a friend's help before the present was due! Lucky Mark!
What a fabulous anniversary present. The embroidery is wonderful, and it makes all the difference. Great present and a great t-shirt!
Did you hand embroider? It's great and the fabric is a good weight for the cooler weather.
What a great gift..Happy anniversary
Lovely T Shirt The sleeves are a nice length and the tone on tone embroidery adds a special detail. Happy anniversary.
What a wonderful gift, I am sure your husband loved the fact that you replicated his favourite tee. And so nicely made as well :)
Happy anniversary! What a great gift. =)
What a great gift! the embroidered skier was such a nice touch !
It looks fantastic! I love the embroidered skier, it's a really nice design :)
What a great gift! It's fabulous!! g
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