Shirt for Class

Shirt for Class!

Back attem, here was the last project for the Construction 1A class, a shirt. Since it was for this class there was some stuff that made this garment unusual, but it's still cool practice.

Primary challenges:

The collar. 

Making a nice neat collar that was nice and pointy on the tips was a good piece of work. It seems to have turned out ok though!

The sleeve caps. 

The part where the sleeve attaches to the body was a lot of work. It took me over an hour for each one. The reason it was so hard was that the sleeve piece is made larger than the sleeve hole, and to account for that you need to sew in the ease (extra length) nice and neat.

You can see the top of the sleeve right at the seam has a little bit of a wrinkle. That's how it's supposed to look. If I didn't do it right, all that extra fabric would bunch up in one place as a pleat instead.

The way I accomplished this was stitching like 3 or 4 basting stitches (long stitches meant to be taken out) parallel to the seam line on the fabric. Then I matched up the fabric, and pulled the threads tight so the fabric would bunch. After that I smoothed the bunches out across the basting so that it was neat. I stitched it together, and afterwards took the basting thread out and got a nice neat finish.

The side seam.

It wasn't so much a challenge, but the side seam did make for a fun bit, since it is sewn after the sleeve is attached. It's one stitch all the way from the hem of the shirt to the end of the sleeve. Weeeee