Didn’t see this one coming, did ya? 🙂
I bought this stripey jersey fabric on my last big fabric excursion, right before I enabled The Ban. Actually, I bought it because I *thought* it was navy/white striped, but upon closer inspection it would appear to favor black over navy. Oh well! Anyway, this top was screaming to be a Renfrew – so there ya go! I’m clearly not the only person who wanted their Renfrew to be stripey-delicious, although mine is a little different because I didn’t cut my bands out of the stripey fabric. Solid black over here!
I did save my stripey pieces, though, so watch out for them – they may end up banding a solid colored shirt 🙂
Not much else to report here – it’s a tshirt, and I made it up (cutting included!) in less than 2 hours. LOVE.
I’m actually pretty surprised I got the stripes on the sleeves (mostly)matched up with the stripes on the body. That definitely was not something I made an effort towards.
The sides match up until about 3″ below the armpits. I think anyone who is staring at my armpits long enough to realize that the stripes don’t match up has bigger problems than me, just sayin’.
I managed to get a much more clear shot of the double-needle topstitching.
SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS PATTERN, Y’ALL.
In other news – I signed up for a Twitter account! Actually, I think Twitter is kind of stupid but since I don’t really venture into blogland on the weekends, I like the idea of having Twitter around for communication. So please add me – I went through a few fellow sewists friends lists and added 6 people (and Pee Wee Herman because, well, why not?) but then I got overwhelmed and gave up. And now my only follower is some spambot who keeps tweeting about sex & debt, ew. So if you have Twitter, let’s follow each other! I’m LLLLADYBIRD!
Also, check out my sweater progress –
Kinda looks like a tiny vest, amirite?
I put it on my form, but my circular needles are just barely long enough to knit this comfortably, so I didn’t stretch it to pull across the front. So here’s the back! I’ve knitted a few rows since taking this picture – that yarn-butt on the shoulder is now part of the sweater, and I’ve officially started my second ball of yarn 🙂 Yay!
Ok, I’m going to go figure this Twitter thing out some more.
Happy Friday! 😀
LLADYBIRD 
Laren, its so cute !
Hi! I found you through Sewaholic and just wanted to say that I love your blog and I live this Renfrew. The contrasting bands look pretty fabulous! 🙂 I also really like your sweater. I wish I were brave enough to try knitting something so cute. I am working on a pair of socks– my first– and am already feeling sorry that I’ll have to knit the second sock when I finish this one…
Thanks for the sewing inspiration, can’t wait to see what you’ll sew next.
Hey, you’re knitting socks – I’d say that’s pretty brave! I haven’t yet learned how to do the whole knitting-in-the-round-with-double-pointed-needles thing yet, but I guess I will need to eventually if I want my sweater to have sleeves 🙂
Love the Renfrew. I will add you to twitter. You can block the spambots when you get a tweet from them. Just click on their name and a dialogue box displays, click on the person icon it will give you a drop down menu.
Sweet, I just blocked & reported her! Ha! Thank you!
Yes but how do you know it was a her?! No don’t answer that!
Haha! Well, the picture was a girl so I just assumed for simplicity’s sake :B
Lol.
Looks great! I think it’s actually almost, if not completely impossible to perfectly match all stripes in a set-in sleeve pattern (rather than, say, a raglan), because of the difference in length and curvature in the pieces. I read somewhere that the place to focus on matching is roughly the middle third, as that’s the part that’s most prominent to an observer. Which is basically what you’ve done, so hurrah!
I recall hearing that somewhere… and feeling reassured when some of the most meticulous sewers I know are unable to match up those stripes! So yay!
Love it!
Every ball or wool or so, I thread some contrasting yarn onto a needle and thread it through the stitches and remove the needle so I can check the fit properly. It’s a pain (but not as annoying as knitting a complete garment that doesn’t fit – guess how I know).
I have thought about doing that but the idea of pulling the needle out (regardless of the fact that there is waste yarn in it’s place) terrifies me! I may end up just attaching all my circular needles together & making one giant circular needle to check the fit.
Just came across from Kestrel Finds and Makes, and I am very happy I found you! I am more of a knitter, but this year will be the year when I start sewing.. and I am sure you blog will be part of my inspiration. WIll add you on twitter as well, cannot have you being followed by some weirdo!
Loving the Renfrew’s you’ve made Lauren 🙂
I daren’t start knitting or join Twitter – as I’ll lose even more hours of the day to more pastimes (I spend so much time thinking about and trying to do some sewing, any more hobbies and I burn out LOL!).
Hey Lauren
Love the t-shirt. I’ve done the black-and-white-not-navy-and-white-stripes thing before but since my love for navy and white stripes in unparalleled by any other coloured stripes I was somewhat more distressed!
I like the block colour bands best 🙂
Sue x
That’s a great T-shirt, I imagine it will be on high wardrobe rotation! I do like the look of that knitting pattern too – off to check it out now. Not that I need another project…!
Lovely lovely lovely. You look excellent in this, it’s awesome.
Awesome ! I always suspected that renfrew is going to be a classic and you’re proving it. I have stripes lined up for mine. Cool knitting also- you are so advanced ( in comp to me that is). You give me confidence that its poss to progress. Such a cute colour also…
Nice stripes!
I love the contrasting bands for the striped Renfrew. I may have to copy yours.
Your Renfrew tops are so great! I can never get knits to look so clean and professional! Also I am so in awe of your sweater! Its coming along great – it will be beautiful 🙂
That’s it… I know what I’m cutting out this afternoon with some jersey in my stash! 😉 Love the stripes and solid bands–such a great idea. 🙂
I love the black and white. I should make another Renfrew soon…
Love the stripe! I made a spotty one for my first attempt very happy with the outcome. Hope you had a great weekend.
Your sewing output amazes me!