Origami shirt

Gulp! That puts me on the spot.

No, I don't know which shirt you mean. But it should turn up on the HGTV website in time, where they archive all the Sew Much More programmes, with lots of pix and good instructions.

A collarless kimono can certainly be sewn from six squares (or more likely rectangles) of fabric - 2 back, 2 front, 2 sleeves - but I can think of a number of different ways it might go together and you wouldn't need knit fabric.

What did this thing look like?

:) Trish

I just searched the DIY website, looked all over the Sew Much More, looked in H&G. and also googled 'origami shirt'........nuthin' :-((

Val

Is it this one by The Sewing Workshop?

I dunno, but that's a neat-o looking blouse. I had read Karen's post about the origami shirt, I hadn't seen the program so was trying to see if I could find what she was talking about.

Val

Karen Try this link:

Well found, JJ.

But are these all the instructions?

:) trish

It's true: if you Google for origami shirt you get little paper shirts, don't you?

BTW: as usual, I can't see Val's posts and I can't see Karen's either, so could anyone else on this thread please quote their posts please? An overzealous Wanadoo is filtering both of you out.

:) Trish

The instructions are in 3 or 4 separate parts for some reason. Starts wiith the Magic square top then you have to go back and click onthe section on making diamonds then onto neckline finishing and then to finishing touches. It's a pain but you can print out each set of instructions. Since you can't read everyones posts go to google, click on groups then type in alt.sewing inthe search box. That will bring up posts you missed. Another PIA for you. JJ > Well found, JJ.

Thanks JJ. I finally found the alt.sewing archive on page 4 of Google, and it came up in Flemish, but I could just about work it out! This is what happens when Google.com defaults to google.fr, I guess. I have no way of overriding it (get the same problem on Ebay, which insists that I'm French because I'm using a French server).

:) Trish

Val

Aha - maybe this has cracked it. Mine said 'outils linguistique' or somesuch, but by clicking on that and changing it to Anglais, I managed to do a search in English only, and on page 3 found the Google Groups thingie, which I've bookmarked. There, I could see Val's post, which I can't see on here, so I've also changed my 'préferences' (in French) to Anglais, and now I'm getting all my instructions, etc, in English. Fab.

Thanks, both of you.

:) Trish

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Jane