Sunday 30 June 2013

Weekend in London and another shirt for Mike.

We decided to spend the weekend in London and this gave me an opportunity to do some things we don't normally do.

Saturday was a nice slow start by shopping for food and then thanks to Boris Bikes we cycled to Waterloo to the Old Vic to see Tennessee William's  wonderful play Sweet Bird of Youth starring Kim Cattrall.  If you get the chance to see this play I can't recommend this enough it was brilliant.

We saw the matinee performance which finished around 5pm and then jumped on another couple of Boris bikes and cycled to Covent Garden, which due to the hot weather was teaming with people.

Today I wanted to finish off Mike's shirt that I started.  I have blogged about these many times before, and I can hear you all yawning as I type, however you never know someone may be reading this for the first time.

I used my TNT pattern kwik sew 3883 as normal, however the only change I made was to use the off-cut roller-blind fabric I had, as the collar and cuff interfacing..... this is a bit of an experiment to see how it holds up with several washes and going through the dryer, so I will let you know.

Sadly the shirt was behaving better thank Mike was lol. Today is the last day of Google Reader, so hopefully you have read all the different instructions on how to read your favourite blogs.  I am using bloglovin and blogger, I hope we don't lose blogger as its my fav.

I hope you have had a brilliant weekend and I'll catch you later..................


10 comments:

  1. Lovely refreshing looking shirt colours! And well made, as usual...J and the wedding band in the shot now ;)

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  2. Your man´s shirts are amazing. Love the colours on this one. I´ll be visiting London in August this year with my mom and daughter, and I just hope they´ll give me their permission to see that play!

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  3. I really like the colors in this shirt and your sewing on his shirts is always impeccable. Nice job!

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  4. Lovely weekend and a beautiful shirt finished too. Wonderful.

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  5. Great colours in this shirt and it looks great. Glad to hear you had a wonderful weekend.

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  6. Beautiful shirt, Pauline...Mike's closet must be VERY big!

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  7. thank you for all your lovely comments - yes his shirt collection is growing, however it also shrunk by about 4 shirts when he managed to "wash" some shirts, put them in the washing machine with washing liquid which he then baked on to the shirt by setting a drying setting rather than washing and we couldn't get the baked on washing liquid stain out of the shirs --- he really didn't want to tell me, as you can imagine ha ha.

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  8. Really nice shirt.What a shame! I forbid my dh to go near the washer and dryer and he likes it that way!

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  9. Love the posts about the shirts. Your blog has been quite the inspiration for me - I have just made and blogged about the first shirt I have made for my Mister! Thank-you :)

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  10. Another terrific shirt! I hope he appreciates how lucky he is to be getting all this custom-fit goodness :)

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