I lastly discovered the ideal old tee shirt to total this specific shirt-shirtdress:
I’ve made this specific … can’t truly phone call it a pattern; let’s phone call it an agglomeration, okay? twice before. (This one I blogged about.)
Here’s the back:
I made the back panel broader this go-around, as well as utilized the exact same tee shirt for the back side as well as pocket panels (and you can see that there are three different sizes/shades of gray gingham here, as well as no, I didn’t match any type of of them):
My favorite, preferred part of this gown is putting the front tee shirt pocket as the pocket panel. For some reason this just pleases me all out of proportion to exactly how much utilize that bit pocket will really get. however even MY POCKETS have POCKETS, y’all.
I likewise like making sure the front center skirt piece has a pocket in it. I have put back otherwise charming tee shirts at goodwill if they lack this necessary element:
The piping above isn’t made of shirts, it’s some bought-in-NYC Japanese piping I had left over from a gray chambray simplicity 2389 that I don’t believe I’ve published about yet. Anyway, back to the matter at hand. The buttonholes didn’t truly line up well at the center front (you can see right here exactly how one buttonhole is really caught in the midsection seam) so I just made a new one (that’s the second buttonhole down). No worries.
My second-favorite bit of making these shirt-shirtdresses is unpicking the front pocket, stitching the darts, then stitching the pocket back down over the darts. Which you can’t truly tell from this picture, however that’s what I did:
Matching the shirttail hem is likewise extremely satisfying — particularly at the sides:
And, of course, utilizing a few of the tee shirt material to make bias tape to surface the sleeves:
(The sleeve opening is really a bit as well large right here — next time I’m going to see if I can really shorten the sleeve as well as gather it into the sleeve cuff from a different shirt. We’ll see if I can discover some XXL tee shirt with huge cuffs to go around my biceps …)
Fabric-wise, this gown took 2 extra-large, 1 large, as well as 1 medium tee shirt (for the bodice). The extra-large tee shirts truly make it much easier to match up the side panel hem curves without having to utilize part of the sleeve underarm (never the very best part of a secondhand shirt!) at the top of the skirt side panels.
I have one a lot more of these cut out (in different shades/sizes of *blue* gingham) as well as I hope to take some building photos to roll up into an eventual tutorial … these are truly not difficult to make. (The hardest part is discovering the coordinating shirts.)
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