The construction of the Davie Dress is pretty simple. The only part that may seem unusual is the neckline binding! Today I’ll show you how the Davie Dress neckline is sewn. I chose a fabric for the Davie tutorial that has a distinct right and wrong side, to make it easy to follow. (And also because it’ll make […]
Hey everyone! We’ve received lots of questions about the Davie Dress, so I wanted to answer some of them here so the answers are public and all in one place. This post covers a long list of good questions that you may or may not have wondered as well, and our answers. I broke the questions into […]
Another placket demonstration! Today, it’s the placket on the Oakridge Blouse. This type of placket is called a continuous bound placket, since it’s made from one piece of fabric and it’s bound around the opening. I sewed up new demo samples just for this post, so it would be easy to see. We’re sewing a […]
The placket on the Granville Shirt looks complicated, but once you start it comes together easily! It’s easier to sew after watching it come together, so I’ll go through the sewing steps with photos. I’ve called it the ‘house’ style placket because of the top pointed edge, it looks like a house. I’ve also heard it called […]
Hey, everyone! We’re back with more Shirtmaking blog posts. Today: button placement! Here’s how I like to get the button placement on a shirt just right. You can use the markings on the pattern pieces, but if you often find your shirts gape at the bust, you might want to adjust where the buttons go. Here’s a […]
Can you make the Granville Shirt sleeveless? Of course you can! For the armhole binding, I used plaid bias binding since I’d ran out of the floral voile. Here’s a good tutorial on how to change a shirt with sleeves to a sleeveless version on the Grainline blog. That’s pretty much what I did here! […]
Here’s the last step of constructing the collar and collar stand! So far, we have a shirt with a collar stand. Our collar stand has an opening along the top edge where we’ll insert the finished collar. We also have a beautiful collar prepared, all ready to attach to the shirt’s collar stand. We’ve passed the […]
Ok! More shirtmaking information today. The Shirtmaking book I’m referencing has a completely different approach to sewing the collar stand than usual methods. I like it because you get to place the collar into the stand, getting it right where you want it, rather than sewing the collar-stand unit to the shirt and hoping it […]