February 2025
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This month we stay with the boat neck opening, and explore a different approach. This month's shirt uses an idea Carol learned from Coby Reijndeers-Baas, a Dutch sprang artist.
This garment uses three pieces of sprang: The front and back are two rectangles, both of these the same size. The yoke of the shirt is created from shoulder to shoulder, meeting at the body's midline, with a slit for a boat-neck opening. The interlinking stitch has lots of sideways stretch. It is well adapted to use around the body. The yoke piece, however, when worked from armhole to armhole, needs a stitch that has more stability, less sideways stretch. The interlacing stitch is well adapted to this. To review the interlacing stitch, see the instructions from January and February 2021. We will talk about sleeves later in the year.
This month we will be happy with a short-sleeved version of this garment. Carol recommends you begin by making small shirts. That way you become familiar with the various steps, and can make a better-informed decision, before launching into a major project. |
Sprang shirt by Coby Reijndeers-Baas in the Costume Museum in the Hague, Netherlands.
The yoke/sleeves were worked from wrist to wrist. The front is a 2nd piece of flat warp and the back is a 3rd piece of flat warp.
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Carol made two adult-size versions, based on this scheme.
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Instead of a chain-across at the centre of the pieces for this month's shirt, Carol used the lockstitch. How does that work?
The video at the right shows you how. |
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To deal with the dangling coloured thread ends at the bottom of the warp, use Carol's Leader-Follower technique
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