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Well, that took a while. Buttonholes and buttons on. There were multiple of both! 😂​ Linen thread is so nice to sew with, especially on linen.

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I have finished the robe, here's the rest of the making of photos!
Here, joined by Karvinen for felling the hem turn. All the little things you can do with fiddly corners when you're sewing by hand. Mitred obtuse corners! Finishing the sleeves by turning the cuffs.

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A photo from the viewpoint of Sini, of the rather large and rather soft looking furry ginger paws of a cat gently grasping onto the sewing in progress. The left hand in the frame is holding onto a needle with red thread in it, in the process of hemming a lot of narrow hem. The fabric is a bright reed with blue and green flowers. The cat's paws look enormous compared to Sini's really quite small hand, but a lot of it is the distortion by the phone camera lens.
Very very close up of the front edge and lower hem meeting. Tiny little stitches have been used to fell all the edges down, making the front side look quite square while having folds and irregularity on the back.
A very nicely mitred hem basted down with loose light pink basting stitches. There is a thicker bit of seam at the corner, and the different layers have been fussed with until a very neat and well behaved looking intersection of all the material has been achieved.
The inside of the sleeve cuff, which is just a big rectangle sewn into a tube and then folded over the join, encasing all raw edges in a very simple and effective way. This way, should you roll up the sleeves, quite a lot of the underside looks very neat and finished. Not that the actual seam, felled by hand, looks that terrible either, but the underside of the fabric looks different than the top side.
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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.

At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!

There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.

a woman walking away from the camera wearing a black long skirt, grey braces, and a red shirt with wide sleeves and a lot of fabric gathered in the middle part of the fitted yoke. The collar is just a collar band, and there is a button in the nape of the neck for a detached collar that is not being worn.

The same, standing still, from the front; there is little fullness above the waistline (where it's tucked in the skirt), and it opens with a button placket in the front with 3 visible buttons.

¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.

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