It's a dreary day here and I can't get a good photo of this shirt at all. After making my husband's shirt I picked out some patterns and fabric to make myself some. I used Vogue 8598 and a 100% linen in a green/dark chartreuse to make view E which is just a basic shirt. It doesn't have buttons and buttonholes yet.
The shirt sew along has helped me more than I expected. Some of the details that I used to have trouble with I no longer do. Also the instructions in this pattern seemed more complicated than they needed to be compared to the man's shirt, so I didn't follow them exactly but substituted the others. One instance was with the cuffs --the instructions have you slip stitch them down inside. I didn't; I topstitched them down and it worked fine.
It's a princess seam shirt and the fit is perfect aside from the sleeves being about an inch too long. I cut the size 10 with a little extra at the hip. I love the linen. It's wrinkly stuff but I don't mind --that makes it nice and casual. Since my ironing board sits out most of the time anyway running the iron over it quickly isn't a problem.
I seem to be addicted to shirt sewing all of a sudden. I've laid a pattern and fabric out on my table to cut this weekend and have two more planned --I might make a whole cutting out weekend and cut them all.
2 comments:
It's looking fabulous! I really love the color!! I couldn't find your email but I have a proposition regarding McCall 4077 (from your Oct. post)...I actually have this pattern in a B32 and would love to swap it with you! Send me an email at: myhappysewingplace[at]googlemail[dot]com!
Fantastic color! Can't wait to see the finished project.
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