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pattern: Grainline Archer button up, view B
blogged: foxthreads.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/archer-button-up/
This unisex beige button up shirt is in excellent vintage condition and looks great worn unbuttoned, buttoned, tucked in, or with the sleeves rolled up! It's from the 1970's and looks very casual yet sophisticated and is very versatile. This vintage treasure looks very lux and expensive - everyone will wonder where you got it!
I confess – I adore leather bracelets. Almost as much as I adore silver bangles. There, I said it.
And naturally I want to share my obsession with you but I’ve been intimidated with the whole “how-to-attach-a-silver-clasp-to-leather” thing. Of course there are findings out there you can buy made for just that purpose… but … well, I guess I’m just being me, but I wanted to make the bracelet from scratch. Except from the leather … I am NOT going to start making leather.
1. ravelry link
3. the boden sweater i modeled the top / button bands on
Yarn & pattern bought in London, January 2007, at Liberty, when we met up with Michelle, who introduced my dad to his favorite British beer.
Started actually knitting it in May that year.
Buttons bought in Tokyo, March 2008
Top of the sleeves re-written by the Nipper when she visited in July 2008 as it turned out somehow my gauge for the top of each sleeve was radically different than when I knit the entire rest of the sweater.
Almost a year later, I decided to get to work on the button bands. But of course then I had to figure out buttonholes since I went with a radically different size button than the pattern.
You may have seen Monica and I modeling the practice buttonholes in May 2009 (sorry, that first link may not work for some of you).
I finished the button bands sometime this fall.
And in just three hours this weekend, I seamed up both sleeves, sewed them in, and sewed on the buttons. Good thing I waited six months before doing that, right? ha.
I didn't do the world's best job sewing in the sleeves, but I did one of them twice and it didn't get much better so I think they're staying as is. I always get a much cleaner sew-in using slip stitch crochet and inserting the top of the sleeve into a circle basically (i.e., shoulder & side seams all sewn up, sleeve seam all sewn up) but it does make a bit of a bulky seam.
It seems like it's a little wide across the shoulders / across the top of the back / and that'll only be worse if I ever lose the 30 pounds I've gained since back when I started knitting this sweater. But the rest of it fits as desired so I must just have narrow shoulders.
and YAY it is done. What a burden off my back and out of my knitting basket.
I have a shirt hanging in my office for times when I need to turn my laptop camera on. When it's a client call I don't like to look scruffy so I pop this shirt on. It's like the old joke of TV news presenters only wearing tidy top halfs and under the desk they have shorts & flip flops :-)
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