Ok, back to work on McCalls M6613. I spent yesterday afternoon copying and tweaking the pattern based on the results of my muslin. I'm going to be making the main shirt in black with a royal blue contrast fabric for details like the inside collar, inside yoke, and possibly the sleeve button tabs. Just a few bits and pieces of color to keep it from being solid black. I have all the pieces cut and ready to start sewing.
Plus, I have enough leftover of each color to start considering what to do for my next shirt. After I complete this project I might be able to do up a second short-sleeve version. We shall see.
Sewing reminds me a bit of cooking. Most anybody can follow a basic recipe and get a basic result. If you drop some flour, baking powder, yeas, and water into a bowl, mix and apply heat, you will get bread. Now, will it be the nice fluffy consistency of store bought bread...no. Will it be a tasty muffin or croissant? Nope. Same with sewing. If you follow the pattern and instructions, you will wind up with a garment that greatly resembles a shirt. but it's still very much a learning process. How does you machine handle this fabric or that. Will it run a simple seam at the same even pace as a felled seam? How does this fabric work with that interfacing? How do you turn those collar points right side out?
I'm learning, slowly & steadily, garment by garment, seam by felled seam, I'm learning.
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