Greenwork Shirt Hits the Halfway Point!

With the stitching you see on this page the Greenwork shirt hits the halfway point.  Based on my estimates I believe the shirt will take about 345 hours to complete.  The completion of this section below was done as I hit 178 hours.  I have completed the greenwork on the collar, both cuffs and both sleeves.  This is the beginning of the design on the back of the shirt.  The repeating pattern continued on the sleeves for 28 inches.  The front and back of the shirt only require about 18 inches of stitching.  The remaining portion of the estimated time will be allowed for completion of the edgework and assembly.

Here is the back of the design.  I have to say that my overall quality of work appears to have improved a great deal in the last 175 hours or so.  From the front you cannot really tell, but from the back you can.  I don't really care what the back looks like, but I imagine that some judges will want to look at the inside of the garment anyway.

I have formally announced today that I intend to enter this as one of my 5 entries in the Middle Kingdom Pentathalon A&S competition in 2015.  Now to begin planning on the next 4 entries.

Some close ups of the images on the back of the shirt.  I like to make subtle differances between the bees.  Some have differant eyes and a couple even have a little smirk on their faces.  Mostly I did that for my daughers.  They really got a kick out of the bees.

Greenwork Shirt Sleeve 2 Section 1 Completed

Same style work, slow progress being made.

I find this sort of progress tracking rather interesting.  Three full spools and a small amount of a third required to complete one sleeve, two cuffs and one collar.

Since these photos were taken I have fininished the first section of the second sleeve.  The quality of work seems to have improved, although the rate of progress has seemed to slow down a bit.  I was hoping that it would go faster.  Not sure, maybe I was simply having a few off days.

 

 Front and back closeups

 

Here are some pictures of the first section front and back.  I think my quality of stitching has improved greatly with the last 100 hours or so of work on the first sections.

 

Here is the update to date chart of work so far. Still looking like a 350 hour or so project.



Description
Initial frame setup	1
Overall design and layout	2
Research, drawing & layout planning	1.5
Wash and stretch fabric	0.42
Collar	9.67
Cuff 1	4.17
Cuff 2	5
Sleeve 1 Section 1 - Flowers/Bees	5
Sleeve 1 Section 1 - Vines	12.33
Sleeve 1 Section 2 - Flowers/Bees	4.28
Sleeve 1 Section 2 - Vines	11.25
Sleeve 1 Section 3 - Flowers/Bees	3.33
Sleeve 1 Section 3 - Vines	9.83
Sleeve 1 Section 4 - Flowers/Bees	4
Sleeve 1 Section 4 - Vines	11.5
Sleeve 1 Section 5 - Vines	2.08
Sleeve 2 Section 1 - Flowers/Bees	5.33
Sleeve 2 Section 1 - Vines	13.92
Sleeve 2 Section 2 - Flowers/Bees	1.25

Greenwork Shirt - One Sleeve Done

Well there have been many hours spent thus far and I can now say that I have one collar, two cuffs and one sleeve fully embroidered.  Not much in the way of details to add here.  The process is simply more and more of the same.

Here are the images that I'll be using in various locations on the shirt.

        

Here is the completed sleeve.  I hand washed the material in cold water and then stretched it out by hand to flatten the design.  Here is a pretty bad picture of it hanging in my bathroom drying.

 

I have been keeping a rather detailed log of the work I have put in on this project and below you can see that I have over 90 hours in on this project so far.  Based on the previous estimates and the current progress I still anticipate that the blackwork will take over 300 hours and then I'll have to assemble all the parts.  I am still guessing that this will be about a 330-350 hour project.

Hours By Section

Description
Initial frame setup	1
Overall design and layout	2
Research, drawing & layout planning	1.5
Wash and stretch fabric	0.42
Collar	9.67
Cuff 1	4.17
Cuff 2	5
Sleeve 1 Section 1 - Flowers/Bees	5
Sleeve 1 Section 1 - Vines	12.33
Sleeve 1 Section 2 - Flowers/Bees	4.28
Sleeve 1 Section 2 - Vines	11.25
Sleeve 1 Section 3 - Flowers/Bees	3.33
Sleeve 1 Section 3 - Vines	9.83
Sleeve 1 Section 4 - Flowers/Bees	4
Sleeve 1 Section 4 - Vines	11.5
Sleeve 1 Section 5 - Vines	2.08
Sleeve 2 Section 1 - Flowers/Bees	3.08
Sleeve 2 Section 1 - Vines	2.67
Grand Total	93.12

3:42pmHL Guillaume del la Sudeterre His real name is Hayward Hall.