{"id":499,"date":"2008-09-16T19:52:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2008-09-16T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:53:25","slug":"feels-like-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Feels like the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reference<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember that shirt I was going to make for Mr. Penney? Well, I finished it last week. Here is the result:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is the review that appears on Pattern Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pattern Description:
\n<\/strong>Men’s button front knit shirt based on this Banana Republic shirt<\/p>\n

\"Original<\/a><\/p>\n

Pattern Sizing:
\n<\/strong>A men’s medium, with an addition inch added to the chest<\/p>\n

Did it look like the photo\/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it?<\/strong>
\nIt looks pretty close to the shirt that it is based on.<\/p>\n

Were the instructions easy to follow?<\/strong>
\nTo get the pattern, I followed the instructions in David Page Coffin’s book on shirtmaking<\/a>. This was pretty easy to follow.<\/p>\n

What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?<\/strong>
\nI wish I had used a straight edge and a french curve to make the final pattern. I freehanded it the whole way, mainly due to lack of patience.<\/p>\n

Fabric Used:<\/strong>
\nA red cotton\/lycra knit from Gorgeous Fabrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pattern Alterations or any design changes you made:
\n<\/strong>After making the initial patterns following the method in DPC’s book, I added an inch to the chest at my other half’s request. I cut the front and the back pattern pieces and redrew them with a quarter inch gap where the cut was made.<\/p>\n

Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others?
\n<\/strong>I would use DPC’s method of copying a garment again, but it will be a while before I make this particular shirt again. This was my first time sewing with knits. The problem I ran into was sewing interfaced areas with non-interfaced areas, like the buttonbands on the front. The non-interfaced fabric would not feed evenly because of the drag of that fabric against the surface of the sewing cabinet. I eventually corrected this problem by sandwiching what was being sewn between two pieces of wax paper. I don’t know if there is a better way. I sure hope so.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:
\n<\/strong>It turned out ok. It was definitely a learning experience, mostly with sewing knits. I need to go back to taking baby steps.<\/p>\n

I will eventually post a pic of Mr. Penney wearing the shirt. He has tried it on and it fits, but I did have a camera around at the time.<\/p>\n

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Reference Remember that shirt I was going to make for Mr. Penney? Well, I finished it last week. Here is the result: And here is the review that appears on Pattern Review: Pattern Description: Men’s button front knit shirt based on this Banana Republic shirt Pattern Sizing: A men’s medium, with an addition inch added […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after","category-clothing","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}