AN EXPERIMENTAL UPDATE - 03/9/20
To listen to the spoken version of this, please click HERE Well now, an update is in order, which I am trying to do from my phone, as that's where all my photos reside! I even have a bluetooth keyboard, which seems to work quite well... so here goes... At LONG last, I have finished my handsewn linen shirt, which I started back in the misty days of Lockdown. It's a very fine navy with a narrow white stripe and was lovely to work with; the dark blue piping is another linen, which I made into piping, with a fine piece of elastic inside to give it substance (elastic, simply because it was there). It's always a bit of a lottery whether a fabric will be nice to sew by hand, but this was delicious... It pairs rather nicely with my denim, 'broadfall' trousers, based on an 1890s pattern. There is another pair in the offing, with a slightly different cut but, for technical reasons, I have to hand-sew the button-holes - and I hate buttonholes! ...