I made a shirt!

I finally got around to making a scoop neck T-shirt from my Craftsy class sewing with knits. You can find some great classes here: http://www.craftsy.com/classes;jsessionid=2EBE08CD9FAC24447A73E344BA5D0B39.eagles.

The longest part of the shirt making process was putting the pattern together

From a stack of 28 pages to a pattern took me about 2 hours.

Then I laid out some Swedish tracing paper and traced out my size. This took about 30 minutes because I was being super careful. Normally I am a little sloppy.

I cut out the pattern

 

Then I laid it out on the fabric.

Then I started sewing

It is a sleeve! I was the most scared about the sleeves and the collar.

 

I made a huge mistake on the collar! I sewed inside out... Grrr. Epic Mistake! So I took my handy seem ripper and went to town. It took me ten minutes to sew the collar on and two hours to undo it. On the bright side I have learned to always check twice before I sew. I do not think I will ever forget.

 

I had to pin the collar so that I could even iron it!

I made a t-shirt!

I am going to lengthen it and make the next size up and then it will be perfect. I will let you know how the next version turns out. At least the pattern is already taped together!  

 

I hope that your day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well my friends.