{"id":662,"date":"2016-12-31T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/?p=662"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:32:13","slug":"argyle-vest-refashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/2016\/12\/argyle-vest-refashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Argyle vest refashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my first trip to Value Village back in January, I picked up some men’s cotton knit clothing, including an argyle vest in earth tones, a casual orange sweatshirt, and a mint green vest. Sorry, no true “before” photos exist. I used the basic raglan pattern that I had created from the original sacrificial jacket, and cut out all the pattern pieces using my rotary cutter. As I carefully pieced it together, I could tell that it was going to be a one-of-a-kind garment.<\/p>\n

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I started saving all the ribbing after cutting it off the necks, sleeves, and waists. I had a feeling this stuff would come in handy later and it definitely did. For example, the armhole ribbing from the green vest ended up being a perfect as a neckband for the finished garment. (unfortunately not shown in the photo)<\/p>\n

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Laying out the pattern pieces. Check out the rad sleeve stripe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was during this project that I started to realize the true potential of converting shirt fronts to sleeves. Because raglan sleeves go all the way to the neck, they are long pattern pieces and require a lot of fabric. With all the XL source garments, I had some amazing options for sleeves. In order to squeeze enough fabric out of a shirt front, you can even include the front placket, or in this shirt’s case, the crew neck. I was able to incorporate that detail into the right sleeve just above the brown cuff which itself was taken from one of the waistbands.<\/p>\n

In the past I have found it difficult to find mass marketed set-in-sleeve shirts to fit my wiry frame. I can either have a slim fitting shirt with too-small shoulders or a loose fitting shirt with shoulders in the right place. It seems as if raglan sleeves give a lot more flexibility for different shoulder widths. And I like how they accentuate the shoulder area.<\/p>\n

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On my first trip to Value Village back in January, I picked up some men’s cotton knit clothing, including an argyle vest in earth tones, a casual orange sweatshirt, and a mint green vest. Sorry, no true “before” photos exist. I used the basic raglan pattern that I had created from the original sacrificial jacket, and… Continue reading Argyle vest refashion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}