So, I’d bought 4m of the skylines fabric from tessuti’s… remember I mentioned my early plans were graaaaand? anyway my dress only took up about half, even with all the fabric-hogging pattern matching, so I had a nice chunk leftover. Just enough for a shirt for Craig!
I used my current go-to mens’ shirt pattern, Burda 6874, with his usual fitting alterations. Of course I still pattern matched all over the shop, but other than that the shirt is a pretty simple one, with very little in the way of fanciful details. I only had enough fabric for a short-sleeved shirt but that’s ok. It’s very summery fabric after all.
features:
- flat-felled seams throughout; my tutorial for regular flat-felling seams here and for flat-felling a curved sleeve-cap seam here
- a little button tab on the sleeve ends. There is a real little buttonhole underneath the button, because I do not like fake details, however it’s not really ever meant to be undone
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- the bias cut thing underneath the side seams is part of the pattern… I really love this very easy and simple little feature
- bias cut front button band and pocket. I spaced the buttonholes so they sit nearly and evenly in the ivory rectangle along the buttonband
he will never ever wear the shirt buttoned up to the top like this, but I made him do it for the photo so I could show off my collar, hehe
breakfast burrito shirt!!
He seemed rather touched and pleased that I made a shirt for no reason in particular! I mean, not a birthday or Christmas. This made me feel a little guilty… do I really make things for him that infrequently?
Food for thought. Well, enough chit-chat… I’m off to make something NOT plaid now!
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