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This is the Renfrew Top by Sewaholic patterns.  It is seriously one of my favorite patterns ever.  I have made about 6 shirts in several variations and I still love it.  I admit I was a total chicken about working with knits.  I do all kinds of crazy sewing projects but I didn’t even touch knits until about a year ago.  I saw this pattern and I had a piece of vintage knit and it was absolute love.  I bought a serger a few months later and I am now getting brave enough to tackling a few alterations to the pattern – I made a version with what my husband calls “princess sleeves” that are puffed on top with long very fitted cuffs.  This is basically everything I love in a good t-shirt – it’s not too short or too tight or see-through.  It’s cute and flattering and dead easy.

You can just make the short sleeved version in my size with a yard of Spoonflower knit.  They have a new knit fabric out and I so I ordered a yard so I could check it out.  And the most perfect design just jumped in to my cart: Wild Horse Stampede by MulberryTree.  Guys, it has seahorses.  Total love.  The trim I did with a bit of orange rayon/cotton knit from Joanns that has tiny tiny little orange and grey stripes.  It just happened to be just the right orange (there are a few little orange seahorses) and I thought the contrast would make the shirt a little more sophisticated.  I wore this to work on Friday and my summer camp kids loved it.