Shirt..

When i created my shirt, i firstly had to lay out all of my fabric making sure it was folded in half on a straight grain. I lay out my pattern pieces that i wanted to be in my main colour. This was the front and back and side peivces of the shirt, the collar pocket and the cuffs. Out of my second piece of fabric, i decided to cut out the other part of the collar stand, the inside cuffs and the yoke.

I started off by firstly making a box pleat in the back piece of the shirt. I then attached the base of both shirt yokes to the back of the shirt by sandwiching the back between the two yokes and then topstitched with a 1.5 seam allowance, making sure I had pinned them into place before hand and that the right side of the yokes were next to the fabric.

I then pressed the yoke upwards and away from the seam to ensure i got a nice neat clean seam line. I then pressed the back button stand to match up with the pattern and then topsticthed it.

I then attached the front shirt pieces and back yoke togther at the shoulder seam using a 1.5 closed seam and i pressed it all flat towards the yoke.

I then went on to do the collar of the shirt. I firstly made sure i had pressed on the interfacing onto the 2 collar pieces and 2 collar stands. I then placed the right sides of the collar togther using a 1.5 seam allowance. I had to make sure i had reduced the bulk by about a half on the collar points. I turned them and pressed them and then sandwiched the collar between the collar stands using a 1.5 seam allowance, reduced the bulk again and then turned it to the right side and pressed it.





I then pinned and sewed the collar stand to the shirt placing the right side of the main body of the shirt using a 1.5 seam allowance making sure i have matched up the notches and the edges are nice and accurate.

I then flicked the collar over and finished off the collar by using a topstitch along the inside of the collar stand.

I then went onto the sleeves, i firstly had to cut out a piece of bias binding for the sleev vent, i used a purple colour for mine, i attached the bias binding to the wrong side of the fabric, reduced the bulk and then pressed and topsticthed on the right side of my fabric. I then sew a little triangle at the top of the vent to hold it securely.

I then had to attach the sleeves on to my shirt, i did this by placing the right side of the fabric togther of the sleeve to the main body of the sleeve and the front and the back, there should have been 1 notch at the front and 2 at the back.

I then had to ease the sleeve into the opening as best as i could and i then sewed around the sleeve using a 1.5 seam allowance, overlocked and reduced the bulk slightly. I then sewed a 1.5 seam allowance from the base of the side seam to the top to the bottom of the sleeve and made sure that the sleeve seam is matching on both sides.

I then had to gather the bottom of the sleeves by sewing 2 lines along the sleeve without backtacking and on sticth length 4, i had to make sure that one line was above 1.5 and the other was below. I then gathered the material.

For the cuffs, i firstly had to iron on the interfacing, sewed a 1.5 seam allowance along the sides and then reduced the bulk. I attached the cuff by putting the right side of the cuff to the wrong side of the sleeve, i then flipped it over, pressed it and top stitch it.

I then had to create the hem of my shirt. I did this by folding up the bottom of the shirt twice, as big as i wanted it to be, but the way i did mine was about a 2cm hem, i folded the first part up and pressed it about 1cm and then i folded it up and pressed it again another 1cm's. I then sewed along the bottom of it as close to the fold as possible so the hem stayed nice and neat.

Now i am onto create the button holes,