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From the neck down, someone wearing a T-shirt with a relatively high neck. The arms and part of the sides of the torso are printed in watercolor-like ripply patches. The middle of the front is an area shaped like the Greek letter omega, and it is printed in the same blue and white spot pattern as a whale shark's skin. The angle is from slightly above the wearer's eye level.

Same person, same shirt, but straight on instead.


Pattern for top is Greenstyle Creations' Waimea rashguard, color block variation, with standard length and short sleeve options. Size I. Fabric is Sew Dynamic athletic knit, 245 gsm, in Enchanted Geode and Whale Shark colors. Thread used was primarily Gutermann recycled polyester Mara 100 rPET royal blue and light blue, with seams serged using Maxi-Lock thread from Wawak.

The bottom is also handmade, although that one was done a month or two ago. Greenstyle Creations Spark tights pattern, size H, bike shorts length. Fabric is Sew Dynamic AK 245 in Night Sky and Geo Misty Trees, printed crossgrain (I hadn't realized that this would result in horizontal stripes, I wasn't looking at the grain direction on the shorts pattern when I bought the fabric). Also Gutermann Mara 100 and Maxi-Lock thread.

Air hose is because I have no full length mirror and rode my bike to work this morning so the photo was taken in the only place where I could set up the phone for a selfie and have a blank wall behind me. Which is to say, in a room with a backup portable AC unit with a ventilation hose running into the ceiling. Sorry.

Resource URLs:

https://greenstyle.com/collections/womens-tops/products/waimea-rash-guard
https://greenstyle.com/products/spark-tights-pdf-pattern-sizes-b-m
https://www.sewdynamic.com/collections/athletic-knit-245-us
https://www.wawak.com/thread/thread-by-use/all-purpose/gutermann-mara-100-rpet-100-recycled-polyester-thread-tex-30-1093-yds/
https://www.wawak.com/thread/thread-by-brand/maxi-lock/maxi-lock-serger-spun-polyester-thread-tex-27/

... almost forgot. The reason I use the Sew Dynamic fabrics is because Sew Dynamic sells Repreve for consumers. The cloth here is made entirely from recycled polyester and a bit of elastane (Spandex, whatever). I think it represents the use of something like 15 or 16 plastic bottles per yard. Sew Dynamic also offers recycled-fiber swim fabric, but that uses nylon, so instead of post-consumer plastic bottles the recycled content of swim fabric mostly comes from scrap generated by the carpet industry.

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