So the last shirt of Wednesday was I shirt pattern that had come in my possession after some extensive google translating. The pattern is 0880 from Papavero, Krawiecka bluzka błyskawiczna. I’ve had an account at Papavero for quite a long time, and in the past most of their patterns were free (yay!). Nowadays, they charge for downloading a pattern, so I needed to get my grabby little fingers on some Papavero credits. Queue me attempting, for the first time ever, to do a ‘world transfer’ from my bank account while google translating the instructions from Papavero and carefully attempting to pay 49 Polish Zloty. Two days later, it turned out that I was successful and I managed to buy this pattern and a few others, but you’ll hear about those once I start/finish the projects associated.
After what felt like forever trying to place the pattern pieces with as little owl-edge as possible, I succeeded. There are a few left over leaves in the side seams from the back pieces, but because I chose to use the wrong side of the fabric, this is barely noticeable. The remaining owls are going in the bin and this is another completed fabric. As for the project, I first sewed the sleeve hems, neckline edges and hems with the twin needle, and then I switched to a jersey needle for the actual sewing. I sort of tried to use the instructions, but in the end managed to wing it based on the pattern pieces and notches themselves.
The fabric isn’t really stretchy, so I’m hoping the neckline edge will shrink a little in the wash, although it is fine as is. I’m generally always impressed with the way the notches on Papavero patterns line up, and this thing fits pretty true to size, I think. Papavero publishes their patterns in a range of sizes, first height (I chose 156, I am 158), then size (I chose 36), then cup size (I chose X). The only small gripe I have is that the sleeves are fairly tight and I’m not sure how to keep the overlap from gapping, but I might just sew a few stitches to get that solved.
That was the end of the (epic) Three Shirt Day series, on to the next thing!
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