I can now share the fruits of my Christmas shirt-making bendah!! Old news? oh well...I made four shirts recently. Yes, four! *phew* all since I returned home from Melbourne. I know. Sheer insanity. I has it.
Actually I did have different Christmas pressie plans, firm intentions to do something else for them all this year. And then couldn't find the specific fabric I needed. And then the Fabric Store in Melbourne had such a gorgeous quality linens in stock...
resistance was futile. Shirts it was. My other plans will keep for next year ;)
All are made using Burda 7767, all with short sleeves, all felled seams, with those tricky curved armscye seams felled using this tip. The linen had no right or wrong side, enabling me to fold the buttonhole bands out, rather than under. This makes a rather nice distinct buttonhole band, which can be further emphasised with piping like I did here, or a coupla double rows of top-stitching, or both. This is my favourite way of doing the buttonhole band.
Burda 7767 has three collar variations; the button-down, the Kent and the shark. I've used all of them at one time or another in my 30-odd versions of this pattern, but haven't ever pointed out the differences specifically when blogging about them. So this time, I shall do so :)
Tim's shirt
btw, Cassie made Sam's shorts in the top picture; I think she did a brilliant job and they look gorgeous! The fabric is Batman cotton from Spotlight, and she drew up the pattern herself using some of Sam's shorts to guide her. They have two welt pockets on the back as well as two inseam side pockets, and an elastic waistband.
Shirt number 4; Craig's emerald green shirt has the rather difficult to execute button-down collar.
So there you go! a short compilation of collars.
Haha, bevy of beauties, compilation of collars, I'm so alliterative this morning. Sheer poetry, wot.
