Monday 18 July 2016

Long sleeved T's and things outgrown: Part I

Combined with her habit of wearing her skirts pulled down low at the front, the fact that all of her long sleeved tops were getting too short meant that it was high time the girl got some new winter warm long sleeved T-shirts.

First up was the necessarily boring one which is school uniform plain red.


It's the Oliver + S School Bus T-shirt with the neckband widened considerably to make it into a skivvy.

Of course I didn't make a note of widened by how much. I just held my fingers apart, guessed at the width I wanted, then doubled that and added a bit of seam allowance. That's how easy a skivvy is folks!


I used the tracing that I already had for size 5 with size 6 length, then added another arbitrary one inch to the sleeve length to account for my gorilla-esque offspring.

I'd thought that I had lots of plain red cotton lycra in the stash, and so was planning to make two or three of these and be done with it. But I didn't. There was enough for only one. But in searching I found so many other fabric combinations I caught cutting fever and planned another three long sleeved Ts.

We had a little drawer clean out and some too small tops have been bagged up and will be dropped off at the charity bin soon.

Sadly, another outfit is now a bit small for my littlest child, but I think I may have to keep it. Even if it makes no sense to the next generation of costume wearers. With a bit of pushing and shoving, A wriggled her hips into it for one last turn as the broken bone record holder that was Evel Knievel.


9 comments:

  1. It might be a school uniform item, but that skivvy looks really good. Did you notice I copied your schoolbus-tee/skivvy-neck for R's Arrietty dress? It worked really well, although if her head grows a bit it might not fit anymore... As for EK, you know I love that outfit! Definitely destined to become a family heirloom. I'm imagining generations of your descendants being photographed in it!!

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    1. I did Marisa! Thank you for the flattering shout out. I haven't seen the Arietty movie but saw a beautiful book of the art of the film at the ACMI bookshop the other day. Your dress is gorgeous and one that I'd like for winter too!

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  2. My 5-year-old also wears her skirts pulled down as far as they will go without being entirely indecent (it drives me insane, actually) - so I laughed at that. The top looks great, and wow, have your kids grown. I remember seeing photos of P in that costume!

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    1. Oh what is it with 5 year old girls wearing their waistbands like 60 year old blokes?! It's amazing watching other people's kids grow on their blogs, when you never notice your own changing that much at all! :)

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  3. I bet it took you quicker to make that skivvy than getting kids organised to drive to a nearest department store. Not to mention better made :D The costume makes me realise for how long I have been stalking you! We are getting into a creepy stalker territory hahaha

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    1. I'd rather poke myself with pins than drag my kids around a shopping mall. Ugh. It's almost 4 years since I made the costume, and since it preceded this blog I'm happy to share it all over again! Nothing creepy about a long term friendship ;)

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  4. You can't let EK go that is ab an amazing outfit. No the red skivvy sounds perfect for winter and much better made than any RTW that you will find.

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    1. If only I'd used ribbing for the neckband as it's a pretty tight head squeeze to get it on. Oops.
      EK can stay - along with the Kill Bill suit that I can't find any way of rehoming without looking like a weirdo! :)

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  5. she looks so cute in that daredevil costume!!!!

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