Grainline Studio Hemlock Tee, V2.0

What’s better than one Hemlock Tee? Two Hemlock Tees!

It was very windy and my husband, who took the pictures, is terrible at noticing things like fabric not sitting right.

I found this Breton stripes cotton jersey at a fabric shop in the Garment District (right behind Moods, if you must know) and I knew that I had to buy some because I knew exactly what I wanted to make from it. I got it for a great price too; $7 a yard, if memory serves me right.

In case you have not figured this out by now, I love stripes. Love them. Plus I am a Francophile so Breton stripes are like music to my ears. That explains why I have so many striped shirts in my closet, but I digress.

For this version of the Hemlock Tee, I retained all the adjustments I made to the previous one except for the length of the length of the body; I didn’t shorten as much this time around.

The crowning glory of this version, though, is the neckline. This is why I knew I wanted to make this tee in Breton stripes. Rather than cut the binding on the grain, I cut it on the cross-grain to get the vertical stripes.

I think this detail adds a bit of pizzazz to an otherwise simple garment.

I love it. LOVE IT!

Also, I made this top as an entry for the Pattern Review “Serger and Converstitch” contest. I sewed the tee entirely on the serger. To be fair, I would have done that even if I wasn’t entering the contest.