Arm~warmers in the Summer -_-

Yumi here. How intelligent of me to sew a pair of armwarmers for Shinji in late July. Well, I guess with boredom comes an act that is not always the smartest. Anyways, I had an old shirt lying around, the pattern was very cute, but the shirt happened to be sort of small. And I saw very much potential in the sleeves of that shirt!

Just to talk about the shirt for a second, the tag reads "love by design" It was really an adorable shirt. It was so cute, I've had it for at least 6 months and have never worn it once [obviously if it doesn't fit] and I haven't had the heart to throw it away.

And, I haven't been out much lately. So, all of the fabric I had besides the shirt sleeves to work with was a yard of lime green twill and also a yard of pink plaid cotton fabric. The choice was hard, but in the end, I chose the lime green twill. The cotton fabric seemed more for baby blankets and such.

There my project began~

First, I cut the sleeves off of the shirt straight across. Next, I grabbed the trusty seam gauge and cut strips of lime green twill to use to stop the cut ends from fraying. With the seam gauge, I gave the lime green lining about an inch all the way around the tops of both armwarmers, pinned it down, and began to sew.

Well, I wasn't at home at the time so my machine wasn't with me. This meant only one thing~ handstitching. Oh joy.

I can only look forward to trying at this point so I just began to sew. Eventually, I realized, a pin had slipped and I had sewed the lining to the lining, right above the actual top of the armwarmer. I think I was very discouraged...maybe I almost quit.

Anyways, I had these seriously adorable large, colorful buttons. And I had a quick fix idea! So, there was still a little room where I could slip the armwarmer back into the lining and I did, but of course, it wouldn't go past the stitch that was already there. So, I sewed on a button and it looked just fine! ^-^ I was very pleased. It had an even cuter appeal with the button!

Lastly, I cut in thumbholes and sewing around the edges so they also wouldn't fray.

Unfortunatley, the picture I can provide isn't good quality because I currently do not have my camera. But, I hope you like them!