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A shirt I made using black n white 1/4in check cotton fabric – note the sleeves are rolled up on purpose, and not because somehow I managed to sew on one sleeve the wrong way, despite matching up the notches correctly!!! The plackets are facing different ways, one back, one front! Think I must have gotten mixed up with the fabric being exactly the same front and back.
So yet another project with a steep learning curve for me! Other than that, was pleased with how it turned out. Used binding on the hem – I hate doing baby hems, find them hard work and fiddly but I’ll give it a whirl again next time. Learned how to stitch yokes, cuffs, and collars on this project which I found really useful and easier than I thought it would be once i got started.
I want to try and make the Talea coat – have my fabric ready and waiting here but after this performance, I think I better flex and exercise my sewing muscles a bit more yet!
Material Notes
Cotton
bias binding
buttons
Difficulty
Novice
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Jan 25, 2013, 03.40 PMby Anne Wagenhauser
Great job, love this style with a large check gingham. With fabrics with no discernable right & wrong side I usually put a coloured cotton tailor’s tack in, the tails/fluffy bits of the tack are to indicate the right side. It can easily be removed when you’re done.
Mar 3, 2010, 08.56 AMby charlsfarls
Ah thanks so much! It does actually sit better at the back though it looks all bunch up somehow in the picture! I perhaps might need to take the back darts in a bit. Im a funny shape! It was a good confidence builder, Ill have to have a go in another fabric, and I think Id like my next one to be a bit longer.
Feb 23, 2010, 08.11 PMby chelsesaurusrex
Oh man, I know what you’re talking about, in regards to fabrics with no real right side and wrong side. I’m making this plaid shirt that has literally taken months now, because I keep sewing backs to fronts wrong and then I have to rip seams, which I hate so I’ll just put the shirt away and make something else instead.
Your shirt turned out really nice, though, and has motivated me to restart that damn plaid shirt.