Sometimes you start darning something and realize it can’t be saved.

Once I got the darning egg under the holes of this linen top from Sportscraft, it was apparent that there was a structural issue with the fabric. The line of weakened fabric went all the way across, from seam to seam. Same with another hole.

As I moved my darning egg across the fabric, at every centimeter I found another spot that would probably go at the next wash. So, instead of being repaired, it’s going to fabric recycling. Really disappointing; I have much older shirts from Sportscraft that are still in great shape.

People who know more about fabric than I do: does this mean that the fabric is made of short-staple linen fibre?
#sewing #mending #linen

#FleurisTonFil du #lin dans le champ, des #orchis, des #drosera #rotundifolia dans la tourbière.à 200m, coup double !! galerie à https://bretagne.en-photo.fr/2025/juin/index.html#93 et suivantes

du lin léonard, hier
du lin cornouaillais, aujourd'hui
Je vois beaucoup de bleu ces jours-ci… J'aimerais bien en voir aussi beaucoup, la nuit, avec de beaux nuages noctulescents ;)
Ce matin pendant la séance, je racontais ma balade d'hier à ma kiné.... et je lui ai appris que c'était sûrement des champs de lin qu'elle a vus en Normandie pendant son week-end, compte tenu de la couleur bleu/myosotis

I have finished the little linen top! It's a gift to my mum and the second one after the working prototype. Meant to be a nice stand-alone garment for summer, but also something to fill out the neckline of something a bit chilly when it's colder. A little linen top! Machine sewn with hand finishing on every seam, based off an Edwardian guimpe in an old magazine.

I have put on the sleeves! Finished the inside seam with just the overlock stitch on my normal sewing machine, as I'm going to do the buttonholes and buttons by hand, and only have so much elbow. Looks like a blouse, now. The circa 1905 sleeves are so nice. I tried it on and it felt like wearing a cloud, also!

"Finnish-ing School" teableau for 04/30/25

The little vintage plate was made by Arabia Finland, depicting a traditional costume of Häme, Finland. There is a series of five of these dishes showing different areas of the country but I only have this one.

Some of yesterday's sewing! I have accomplished... Most of two sleeves. Turned a little hem on the cuff slits, added a tiny little reinforcement square on them because this linen is so fine. So fine. Probably won't last incredibly long in use, but then again it won't be a super practical shirt so won't be worn quite as much... The pattern is the one I drafted according to the 1905 manual, again.

"Twin Kitties" teableau for 04/27/25

Fraternal, obviously.

Nächster Schritt am #gambitdress ist die Verzierung von Halsausschnitt und Armlöchern. Danach noch das Futter an der Taille befestigen.

I have had a rough morning (mostly a procession of slightly annoying things but just one after the other) so to cope I am making another white linen shirt, because why not another white linen shirt. Just a basic one, too!

Have been slowly sewing the two new linen shifts, and boy was it time to... On the left, the nice new shift with its hand finishing in progress. On the right, a poor old one, fresh from the wash so I can repurpose the still good fabric, absolutely falling apart!

A little bit earlier today, this second hand shirt took a couple more steps towards being more patch than shirt... But it's a good shirt! It's amazing how much more worn the right sleeve is, what do I even do to cause it??

Last summer I started to wear victorian-style corset made of cotton coutil combined with linen undershirts half of the time. Now I've gotten so used to it that I really, really can't wrap my head around the fact that people somehow decided that completely synthetic bras will be the contemporary warderobe staple. They are so sweaty compared to my linens. #HistoryBounding #linen #corsetry #PlasticIsEverywhere