Of course my boys are not twins obviously, they are separated by several years and have one sister in between them too. But they are both Geminis! That picture cracks me up btw... so brotherly... :D
So, of course the other shirt was for Tim, our eldest son! He had a birthday recently too :)The fabric for his shirt is the same that I used for Sam's but in a different colourway; a medium weight striped cotton drill in black and cream stripes from Spotlight. The cream background is a touch deeper in colour than the slightly lighter ivory colour that is on Sam's navy blue and ivory shirt.
I went with an on-grain pocket this time, just for one different visual detail between the two shirts.
The other details are all almost identical: epaulettes, a smaller, slightly rounded collar,
Sam's
Details:
Shirt; Burda 7767 modified, black and white striped cotton, my review of this pattern here
So, two more shirts. Phew. I feel like I could just about make these in my sleep now! but two in a row is just about my limit; toward the end of the second one I am getting a little shirted out and need to cleanse my palate by making something completely different before thinking about any more shirts. Variety (in projects) is the spice of life, non?
Fortunately, my next, er make that, current project is super frivolous and super fun and I am having a ball with it. Very very very silly and self-indulgent. I'm having so much fun with it, that I have already roared roughly halfway through and I only bought the fabric on Saturday! And I don't even need it for several more weeks!! I absolutely must slow down. But eeeee! It's such a crazy and ridiculous thing, and I cannot wait to wear it and show it!
And I'm totally embarrassed that I mixed up Gemini and Cancer... when I did Cancer last month, honestly I didn't even realise I had got it wrong until yesterday when I was browsing through birthday cards in the newsagent. I think I got confused because my boys both have birthdays in June and are Gemini, and I just thought to myself, well that is going to work out nicely and then made a mental leap that ok then May must be Cancer and didn't twig that Cancer came after. You can tell I'm not too crash hot on horoscopes.
