I've been busy (that's my excuse)

So, it's been a bit since I've posted, and I really truly was trying to post once a week.  Oops.  Well, I've been busy.  For real.
We've had snow days, which are for playing (and shoveling) and the end of the quarter, which means grading and more grading, and I have been sewing, but kind of slowly.
Also, there's the whole thing about tearing out the kitchen.

Construction continues in the background.

So at this point, I have 2 new shirts and a mostly finished new kitchen.  I am truly lucky to have such a handy husband and family.  On the kitchen front, what started as a new oven turned into new countertops and snowballed from there.

So, about the shirts: Both were made using this pattern from Burda.  Did you know that if you see this:

Note: This is the same pattern PDF as the “Flounce Dress”: and the Raglan Shirt, 

then your download includes those, too?  Bonus!  Not that I see myself making the flounce dress, but hey, you never know.
Also, new to me were the instructions to draft the neckband.  Helpfully, they tell you the dimensions, followed by this: (incl. seam allowances).  Now, considering that no part of the pattern includes seam allowances, and they say that in several different places, is that phrase reminding you to add them, (read: Include seam allowances!), or is it telling you that they already included that for you (read: including the seam allowance, which we're not going to tell you what it is)?  In this case, it seems they DID, and it was 1/4".  Just FYI.

Super comfy

Version 1 is a bonus; it is a long-er sleeved top. Those long sleeves on the Raglan shirt are LONG.  the sleeve pieces were honestly ginormous compared to the front and back of the shirt. In order to conserve fabric, I made mine shorter.  A lot shorter.  Heads up, if you're interested in the long sleeve version, I doubt you'll need to add hem length.  To the bottom, either.  I cut off about 2-3 inches before hemming, and I didn't trace the dress length.

Version 2 is the actual shirt I intended to down load and make.  It is made from about a yard of some cotton/poly blend.

Back view of sleeves and my hair

back of version 2 plus a view of where my microwave and tile will go

tag added so I can tell the front from the back

In both versions, I used some knit stay-tape to stabilize the neck line of all pieces. Also, I added a folded bit of Hug Snug under the back to make a tag, because sometimes, I get dressed in the dark.