New shirt (150/365)

[white_hart]

I cut out the fabric for a shirt a few weeks ago, but for various reasons didn't really get much of the sewing done until this weekend. At which point it struck me that if I added the collar stand and just left off the collar, I'd end up with a granddad shirt, and maybe that would look quite nice, actually.



I think it does look quite nice.

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[antisoppist]

It does look nice indeed.

I am making a shirt dress but found I hadn't cut out the collar stand at all and also that I had (unusually) thrown all the spare fabric away. I ordered more (and 4 more chunks of exciting fabric at the same time, oops but also bonus) and now it has come, it is not quite the same colour so I am going to attempt pinching it from the bottom half of the front facing. Tonight I am taking the sleeves off and pinning them on the opposite arms. I thought very hard about where the cuff opening needed to go and I was wrong.

[white_hart]

Thank you!

I suppose you must get variation in colour between bolts of fabric in the same was as you do between dyelots of yarn. I hope you manage to squeeze out the collar stand from what you have!

I spent quite a bit of time turning the sleeves of this one round and comparing them to the armholes, because the fabric doesn't have a right and wrong side and I didn't want to fold one the wrong way and end up with two left sleeves.

[antisoppist]

I couldn't tell the difference between my front and back notches.

One of my favourite bits in a book is The Battle of Wednesday Week when the 16 year-old new American stepsister is trying to mend tensions by making the English stepsister a shirt and cuts two left sleeves and then borrows the car to buy more fabric and gets stopped for driving under the age of 17 without a UK licence. Shirt sleeves are difficult to get right and it's a mistake that ends up making everything worse.

[white_hart]

This time round I actually remembered that the double notches were at the back without having to look it up every time. I really enjoy that with sewing, I can see how things that were difficult at first are becoming easier and easier. (I have also now got to the stage where I don't have to unpick half the armhole sleeves to fix accidental gathers every time, either.)