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Sewing projects, tips and inspiration for the modern seamstress and the sewing blog of Sewaholic Patterns
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 […]
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 […]
To get a really nice collar stand, the stitching around the centre front corner needs to be perfect. Each side needs to be exactly the same, too! One way to get nice results is to make a collar stand template. Here was my first attempt at sewing the collar stand: Yeah, no. Not good enough […]
Some readers asked me to show how I adjust patterns to give it a more relaxed fit. Since I’m working on a tencel denim Granville shirt right now, I thought I would show you. You can make this same adjustment on both the Granville shirt and Oakridge blouse. Plus, it’s mega easy. The side seams […]
Are you ready to watch a new and exciting way of sewing a shirt collar? Here it comes! How to sew a shirt collar the shirtmaking way: You’ll need: your shirt collar cut from main fabric, two pieces your shirt collar cut from a piece of sew-in interfacing glue! One thing that’s different about […]
Glue-basting is awesome! It feels like cheating, but if David Page Coffin recommends it then it can’t be wrong. I used his book Shirtmaking for the construction of my Granville Shirt and one of the things in it is glue-basting. I thought I’d talk about it in detail as it will come up again and […]