#drumpt

I’ve been working on an installation piece since the summer-and the shirt above is one part. The goal was to make a size 4 toddler boy’s shirt, with DT faces, along with a necktie element-which I’ll post tomorrow. (the piece is finished and will be installed this week-more on that to come!) The fabric is from Glitter Hollywood on Zazzle.com. I thought it worked out well-the scale of the faces was perfect! The shirt pattern was from oliver + s.  As I haven’t sewn like this in-well, decades, I allowed myself the luxury of going slowly-being kind to myself when I made mistakes (and I did!) ripping the mistakes out, and re-sewing. Above is the final shirt, below are studio snaps of the work in progress. It’s been fun and challenging. 

I had to learn how to make buttonholes-I had never done that! Below are the tests.

Below: The finished button holes on the shirt. In the end, they were pointless, as I decided on large gold tone dome buttons, are so large, the shirt won’t open-or function like a normal shirt, but now I know how to make them!