Bee shirt

[Ploshkin]

During the summer I attend several local shows with our beekeeping association.  I've been looking for some fabricwith bees on (not cutesy ones with silly faces) to make a shirt or t shirt.  There are a lot of nice fabrics in America with £20 shipping but not so easy to find one here. 
I found this one on Etsy - it wasn't cheap.  It's a fine, polyester, very stretchy jersey (there was a choice of fabrics to have the design printed on)
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T shirt made.  It looks awful in the photo - when worn there aren't any of those wrinkles round the neck!  I only had the hems to finish today but I think they took me as long as the rest put together.  I have never found a go to method for hemming jersey.  I tried all sorts of stitches, double fold, single fold etc but ended up with a strip of fine stretch fusible interfacing, a single fold and a single line of stitching.  In the process I completely lost my glasses (not sure how they got in the kitchen when I hadn't been in there) and melted a lump of the fabric, fortunately a spare scrap, to the bottom of the iron. 
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[eclectic]

Hi ploshkin ... it looks like you have used a coverstitch on the neck binding ..did you use the same for the hem? Usually a jersey wouldnt be a double fold just a single and you could try wonder tape, so no ironing. If the hem has gone wavy that means the fabric has stretched out due to to too much pressure. I love the wonder tape its so easy to use and i just dip it on water and it dissolves.... I hope you enjoy your new tee I bet you look bee-utifull

[Vezelay]

Lovely tee @Ploshkin and well done for finding that fabric. With stretchy knits I use this stuff and either twin needle or zigzag (if it won't show much). But that's never been 100% satisfactory as I find those stitches seem to reduce the stretch. So I've just bought a...coverstitch machine.

[BrendaP]

The tee shirt looks great - and just right fo advertising your bees and honey.

The hems of stretchy knit fabric definitely need stabilising; wonder tape or strips of stretch interfacing and only a single turn hem as it won't fray or unravel.  If you have a a coverstitcher use that, if not a twin needle works almost as well.

[Ploshkin]

@eclectic no I didn't use a coverstitch for the neckband, I don't have one.  I just attached the band with the overlocker and topstitched with a single line of stitching.
The strip of stretch interfacing worked well for the hem it was just a faff cutting it and after my melting incident I was a bit wary of fusing it.  I normally only buy cotton jersey but didn't have that choice.
@Vezelay stop trying to tempt me

[wrenkins]

@eclectic no I didn't use a coverstitch for the neckband, I don't have one.  I just attached the band with the overlocker and prostitutes with a single line of stitching.

                                  EH?

[Ohsewsimple]

I always think a triple zig zag stitch works better than the ordinary zig zag.  I use a coverstitch myself but do lots of jersey work.

[Ploshkin]

@wrenkins  now that I've stopped laughing I've corrected it to topstitched. Sometimes autocorrect excels itself.

[wrenkins]

That was a belter @Ploshkin. I laughed till I cried.  I couldn't think what you could possibly mean. 

[Ohsewsimple]

I just didn't like to ask 

[Nevis5]

                                  EH?

Hahahahaha!  Brilliant!!  I hadn't seen that until now, that made me laugh so much!  Got to love autocorrect 

[wrenkins]

I'm on a gardening forum. Don't even start with nasturtiums!!!!! 

[b15erk]

I love nasturtiums - just don't like the fact that they attract bugs of the eating sort - butterfly eggs, which grow, and eat everything in sight!!

Jessie

[wrenkins]

I love them @b15erk but predictive text has a way of making them unseemly.