Sunday, May 22, 2011

New Favorite Shirt


I have been on quite the sewing kick lately.  I have also been scouring the internet for shirt patterns.  It seems like I find a million skirts, but shirts are a little harder to come by.  I did find this tutorial and adjusted it to a shirt.  I figure you could do that to a lot of dress patterns. 
The great thing is that they are pretty easy and really cheap.  For the top shirt I made my own bias tape, but for the bottom shirt I used the packaged tape.  Making your own bias tape can be a little time consuming, but I plan on heading out to Hobby Lobby this week and buying one of the bias tape tools that I have seen.

I did improvise on one part.  It said to sew the bias tape shut but my machine was not liking the idea.  I was having an extremely hard time maneuvering the small piece of material through my machine.  Instead I sewed the bias tape to the shirt up until the top of the bodice and stopped there.  To close the remainder of the bias tape I used Heat and Bond.  Worked like a charm!

1 comment:

Derek and Amber said...

These are so cute I really need to learn how to sew. I have a sewing machine and have had for a couple of months but it's still in the box.