New Lesson Learned
Never talk about a shipwreck while crafting. Ahem............ There isn't a birthday shirt yet. In fact, the birthday shirt has hit a big, big BIG snag. I had 2.75 yards of flannel. I SWEAR I did read the back of the envelope before starting, and I am making shirt D. With 44-inch-wide fabric. Which is not what the shirt calls for. Because I am an idiot. It isn't a total loss yet. I'm going to see if I can lay it out differently and make it work. If that fails, it can be a short-sleeved shirt, though short-sleeved flannel is a bit weird. Having 2.75 yard is pretty exact, so I'm guessing that might have been accurate for a DIFFERENT shirt pattern, but while I found the first long-sleeved shirt that I made for Andy, I can't find the pattern. And since I bought this fabric back in 2006 when I was young and trusting of the people who both cut fabric and the demented madmen who are employed to write patterns, ...