We were out and about at one of the theater events put on by Moisture Festival. He was wearing one of his favorite shirts, a bricky-red silk number. It was tucked in, and in the process of settling into our seats, he pulled it out and the side seam ripped badly.
The damage was pretty bad, and I said to him, well, I could make you another shirt.
Later that weekend, we went down to Pacific Fabrics to see what options were to be had.
As we were perusing the selection of batiks, my eyes fell on a coffee cup print. It was perfect!
I bought the appropriate yardage, as well as a pattern, thread, buttons, and interfacing.
Over the next few weeks, I made the shirt. But it had been a long time since I had made clothing. All went well until I did the buttonholes and buttons.
I thought I was all done, but when Tim tried it on, he said, "Sweetie? The buttons are on the wrong side."
Oops.
I suppose I could have left it that way. But the OCD part of me couldn't let it lie.
I snipped off the buttons, zigzagged the buttonholes shut, and re-sewed them on the correct side.
When the shirt is buttoned up, you really can't see the sewed-up buttonholes. And even if it's unbuttoned, the thread blends in rather well with the fabric print.
So, I got off easy.
And I'm getting ready to do it again, with this really cool fabric based on this iconic image, which we spotted in the window of Esther's Fabrics on Bainbridge Island.
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