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<\/p>\nOkay, lesson officially learned. DOWNLOADABLE PATTERNS: NOT EVEN ONCE.<\/p>\n
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Especially not from the big three. Oy vey. Even before the horrendous, soul-sucking jigsaw puzzle that is assembling your pattern pieces from about a jillion pieces of 8.5×11″ paper, the PrintSew user experience is NOT one to write home about. Unless you really like to convey a sense of desperation and rage to the people at home, I guess.<\/p>\n
Anywho, I downloaded and put together the pattern pieces (10! Oof!) for the bathrobe portion of this jammies set, and cut the size small (it’s a unisex pattern). The pattern is drafted for a woven flannel\/fleece-type fabric, but because I am a wack job, I decided to stitch it up in a super-soft and cuddly rayon doubleknit.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, this didn’t wind up being too much of a PITA except for attaching the collar facing portions. The weird angles at which they were cut made no sense, so I just stitched them as best I could and got a sort of weird, ripply, collar-thing.<\/p>\n
But the nice part? I picked this project to be my veritable “intro to knits” because I didn’t really care if it came out looking like a beauty queen, so long as it was wearable. And you know what? It is. It’s precisely what I wanted… a big, cozy blanket of a garment that covers all the pertinent bits when I’m going from shower to bedroom. It has pockets, and I put in a locker loop (though since it’s also rayon doubleknit, it’s usefulness is somewhat truncated), and the sleeves and bottom hem hit me exactly where I want them to. As much as it looks like a big sloppy mess, I am happy with it. And it also taught me that sewing seams with knits is not that scary. Which was vital for the second project I managed to turn out this past weekend… but more on that tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, lesson officially learned. DOWNLOADABLE PATTERNS: NOT EVEN ONCE. Especially not from the big three. Oy vey. Even before the horrendous, soul-sucking jigsaw puzzle that is assembling your pattern pieces from about a jillion pieces of 8.5×11″ paper, the PrintSew user experience is NOT one to write home about. Unless you really like to convey a sense of desperation and rage to the people at home, I guess. Anywho, I.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}