Raglan finished...I think

I'm finding that the better I get at sewing the pickier I become. That is why, after a 3rd trial of the raglan pattern, I have put it away before I tinkered with it some more...it looks pretty darn good I think...seems to be about at the level of a pattern I could have bought. I know, I know...I'd have wasted a lot less time buying one to begin with, but this is a learning process for me. Besides, then I can go ahead and draft my own raglan from my basic tee pattern. It's all good. At any rate, my french terry isn't here, and the more I stared and critiqued the more I wanted to change it just one last time...just a bit less of a curve in the bodice is all...make the line a little straighter whilst keeping the sleeve the same. I wouldn't even bother with a test-shirt as I feel confident enough that it wouldn't have a huge impact either way...I'm just picky. I may do it before using the pattern for that dress I'd mentioned earlier...but I just couldn't pick it up again quite yet :P


Pics of the navy showing where I took the excess out from (didn't find much help around the internet...just kinda went at it on my own):

3D to 2D...after this step I retraced and smoothed the lines/trued the side hems with the prev. test pattern:

3rd and final trial (told ya I'd use that awful red rib! I'll be painting a heart and calling it a valentines shirt...not sure what else I'd do with it! It's pretty girly with the lettuce edging) See the fit where the bodice meets the arm? Much better! :


The first two trial shirts finished...the turq. we are calling her amoeba shirt...it was a paisley stencil I'd had...but bleach tends to travel :) It's a grub shirt so we didn't care...maybe it'll be her art & science shirt! The 2nd I made a stencil out of the Twins logo:
So! Onto the next projects...I'll be posting my latest one after this. To leave off, here are some twill tags I'd done...not totally happy with them (ok really...what am I ever totally happy with??). I have hopes to improve the process though and may just be sticking to the skinnier/flatter tapes. Someday it'd be nice to order 'real' tags but whatevs...we're just happy there's a tag telling us which side goes where! A few turned out pretty cute though...they look rather sad all lined up in the pic.

These'll be the ones you sew on the sides:


And these are for the back neck (the folded variety):

Off topic: Em lost her SIXTH tooth the other night...she now looks like a hockey player. Can't say her s's...wonder when the top ones will come in? Her other one fell out months ago and nothing yet... She has her two bottom ones though (adult)...and her six year molars...found that out at our last dentist appt- didn't even know! I'll have to take a pic :)