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Hooray for an FO!

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G'day all! I have been very slack getting pics of the Drops tshirt (81-6) for you. Indeed, I don't know if this one counts at all, but at least you can see it is wearable! (Scuse any colour problems - I cannot get it slightly right whilst using the laptop) (I didn't realise that I am that funny pink colour that kids use for skin tone. Well now I do know!) I'm playing dead - legs in the air, etc. I might even get better pics for you ;-) I have started editing the gazillions of pics from Tahoe (there's over 800 in the local album, never fear I won't be putting *that* many up but I do have about a hundred that I reckon are nifty. Be warned if you are on dial-up - don't look at Victorian, On the Move (my travels blog) :-) anon!

Drops tshirt progress

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G'day all! Thought I would show you some pics of my Drops tshirt 81-6. These pics date from a week ago! *blush* I am soooo bad not putting them up. I decided that I should try some fancy shots like I see pretty blogs like Brooklyn Tweed and others doing. Do they do it for you too? I've now completed the back and worked and reworked and reworked and worked again the sleeve. The sleeve as written for my size would give a sleeve that is nearly 40cm around! I may have giant arms (with great big strapping muscles, well maybe not great big muscles) but like 40cm is a BIG arm for someone who is not *that* well fleshed. Plus when I worked out how long the edge of the sleeve would be, it was not long enough for the armhole of the tshirt body. So I tried to make up my own sleeve. The first attempt didn't have enough space in the head of the arm, the second was better, the third revealed that I needed a slightly larger sleeve and the fourth? Almost right! Hooray! So now, at ...