I’ve been looking for “interesting” shirt patterns, thinking that I could make lots of plain white shirts with fancy details, and then dress them up with jewellery or waistcoats or (cool) bow ties. The pictures above are about half-and-half patterns that I own already, and ones I’d like to buy.
Except that I’ve bought dozens of patterns for perfectly lovely shirts over the years, and then never made any because my sewing machine hates making buttonholes. I’ve had it looked at, but it works perfectly for Sue at the sewing machine shop. Every time. Stupid thing.
I’ve made precisely four of the shirt patterns that I own, and that includes a pirate shirt and an original 1970s pattern. I altered every single one of them to either replace the buttons with poppers, or to leave the buttons off altogether, but I don’t want to do that with everything I make!
Then there’s the part where I actually own quite a number of shirts already, and I never wear them. They’re always at the bottom of the wardrobe in the ironing pile, so I tend to just throw on a t-shirt instead.
Clearly someone needs to invent a magical button-free, crease-free shirt.
Oh, wait.
That’s a t-shirt.
Ah.
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