Another shirt from McCalls 6613

I am still deep in company land so this will be brief. Here are some shots of my latest shirt for a son, this one for my boy in NYC.

This pattern continues to impress with a few modifications. The buttonhole markings for the collar are far too high into the collar - the ones you see in RTW are right into the point, in some right into the top stitching.

I have also settled on this method for doing a collar on a stand, more steps but each is more or less a straight seam and can be fixed before you commit to the next stage. No fancy sewing or rolling or twisting - this method suits my style of sewing best.


Here we go:

Flypaper thoughts mid August

• Wall to wall family visits this month
• Love the company, wish some of this happened in mid winter
• Seeing more of the dishwasher than the sewing machine
• Have resorted to delegating some of the food prep to a two and four year old
• Results as expected
• I think trees have souls
• At least the ones in my front yard
• Every night I take Daisy out in the yard and pat the moss patch on the one in front of the window
• It knows
• I know it does
• The shirts are taking off
• Have orders for five more for various men in the family
• Who would have guessed?
• In life you are never caught up
• Figure that out and you have a lot figured out
• Am making a list of most worn and most wish I had garments for this season
• So far my eye shade that blocks out the various little device lights in my bedroom is #1
• Silk tops not so much
• Do you know that potato flowers are the colour of the skins of potatoes?
• File that one away
• I have plants in the front yard with purple flowers
• Don't ask
• Need to go to New York and buy fabric
• Every once in a while you run across someone who doesn't know anything about a subject
• But wants to explain it to you anyway
• Little Billy looks exactly like his grandfather Billy
• That's pretty nice
• Kind of a life bonus
• In the fall I will have time to sit in my sewing room and make seams
• But then I will miss them all