Dress Diary - Warwick Shirt: Hemstitched Collar
Hemstitched Collar
Originally uploaded by Ragnvaeig. Oh, how spiffy is this? I took liadethornegge's advice, drew the fourth thread out from the embroidery, and hemstitched the edges. The result is, indeed, quite sexy.
As of Sunday, in Knoxville and still rather addled by flu, I was rather afraid of cutting into the linen on which I'd embroidered, for fear of disrupting well over a hundred hours' worth of work. Well, I got over it. It wasn't until I got back to NJ that I really figured out hemstitching, but I have since finished the collar, and it looks absolutely lovely.
Have hit the snag/fuckup for this project, however. In embroidering, either I'd gotten my measurements a little strange, or I'd simply figured someone else would solve the problem, as I seem not to have appropriate sizes for each of the pieces. The collar, e.g., is probably around 10/12 cm too short to go comfortably around his neck, while the cuffs are each about that length too long. (Yeah, I don't know what I was up to.) Am solving the cuffs by just tucking the excess under and not worrying too much about it, but I may have to add length to the collar by some means. Whatever I manage, I'm sure it'll eventually look like a feature. ;)