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Me: why does my back hurts so much?

Also me whenever I sew for more than 5 minutes:

Sneak peeks at the finished Dernhelm shirt!

It’s now packed up in my case and ready for proper picture in a castle ruin or some other grandiose background!

This shirt caused me to swear in frustration so many times, and the sleeves are wonky as hell on the inside, and there are a lot of things I’d do differently now but hey, it’s Good Enough! And I love how I look in it, which wins over all the imperfections. And I am So In Love with the buttons you don’t even know!!!

The only thing I’ll probably do because it’s for the durability of the shirt rather than the aesthetics is going over all the buttonholes by hand to cover the fraying. My machine can make buttonholes but the result is all but neat and sturdy, so this is something for future Camille to work on.

After much swearing and crying over the pattern instructions, the body of my ‘Dernhelm’ shirt is done (minus the collar and hem bc I need to go buy matching thread for that). The sleeves are almost done too, I just need to hand sew the cuffs, and I will be able to attach them to the shirt. And after that it’s only 10 hand sewn buttonholes! (I never made buttonholes by hand so it will be… interesting)

Don’t mind the awfully clashing skirt, it’s my equivalent of sweatpants