• she/her

My hobbies are all excuses to collect pretty colors. I enjoy knitting, sewing, running, trombone-ing, gardening, & sci-fi short stories. Coding when necessitated and occasionally for fun. Microbiology for fun & (non-)profit.


My sewing plan for this year includes a fitted collard button-up shirt for myself. I've realized I wear mostly short sleeves and am not fond of how bulky woven cuffs are under my work jackets, so I won't worry about fitting the long sleeves right now and can go back to make those when/if I want them. (I have enough knit long sleeve shirts for now.)

I've narrowed my choices down to two patterns (Jalie 3130 and 5 Out of 4 Patterns Joanna). Both patterns are probably going to need lots of tweaking to get them to my proportions, but they both present a solid starting point.

I assembled the Joanna tonight, but I don't think I'm going forward with a muslin. It's probably a good pattern, but the pattern itself did not assemble well and I got a bad feeling about it.

The not correct vibe coming from the Joanna pattern is the same feeling I got when I assembled the first pattern for Jay's shirt-- that something about the pattern as a collection of lines together on their glued pages was not compatible with my needs for the project, that they would not fulfill my vision once they became fabric. I'm at loss to point to anything particularly alarming on the Joanna, but I'm not going to blindly go past my sewing instincts. Each time I do that I regret it! My brain has sussed out something and I'll listen this time.

I've just downloaded the Jalie 3130 shirt. I'm out of time tonight but will attempt to assemble it tomorrow. Hopefully it says yes to me once I get it glued together!


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